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Re: st: How low can the percentage of uncensored cases be in heckprob?


From   Steven Samuels <[email protected]>
To   [email protected]
Subject   Re: st: How low can the percentage of uncensored cases be in heckprob?
Date   Tue, 11 Nov 2008 17:28:49 -0500

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I see your point, Maarten. I would guess (being out of my element here) that the higher the percentage of uncensored observations, the more resistant will results in the second equation be to misspecification in the first.

--Steve



On Nov 11, 2008, at 5:00 PM, Maarten buis wrote:

--- Steven Samuels <[email protected]> wrote:

I am not familiar with -heckprob-, but I doubt if the *percent* of
uncensored observations matters much.

  -heckprob- fits two probit models.

There is a bit more going on here, at the second equation you only have
information on those who where selected in the first equation, so
having many people censored means that you loose a lot of information
for the second equation.

-- Maarten

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