September 2012
Intermediate to advanced
286 pages
8h 7m
English
Appendix M
Estimation of Tobit Model with Selection
(Source: Thomas [1])
The basic assumptions are that the error terms in Equations 5.4 and 5.5 are bivariate normal – that is, 
, 
– and are not correlated with the regressors. Therefore, a truncated bivariate normal distribution is used to derive the likelihood function for the Tobit model with selection. Specifically, an individual's conditional likelihood function is as follows:
Given the assumption of normality of the error terms, Equation (M.1) can be respecified as follows:
where
(M.3) 
and 
is the standard deviation of 
for segment 
, is the covariance between and for segment , and SBVN is the standard bivariate normal distribution. ...
