--- Carlos Gamero <[email protected]> wrote:
> I have a question related to STATA software that I hope you can help
> me solving. I'm estimating a probit model of childs' job satisfaction
> (only satisfied-dissatisfied options). We want to correct for sample
> selection bias in such model, taking into account child's labor
> participation. As working and schooling decissions are correlated, we
> think in a bivariate probit (working/schooling decissions) as
> specification for the selection mechanism. �Is there any possibility
> in STATA to use a bivariate probit model as the selection criterion
> when the regression part of the model is assumed NOT to be linear
> (job satisfaction probit model)?
I am sorry, this is indeed a different question from the one I answered
earlier.
I am not sure what you mean by not linear: the relationship between a
probability and explanatory variables is always non-linear in a
-biprobit- model.
-- Maarten
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Maarten L. Buis
Department of Social Research Methodology
Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
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1081 HV Amsterdam
The Netherlands
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Buitenveldertselaan 3 (Metropolitan), room Z434
+31 20 5986715
http://home.fsw.vu.nl/m.buis/
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