Beta coefficients of marginal effects

[Marco Petterson]

Hello,

I am writing my master thesis and one of the main regression I perform is a probit. In order to compare the effect of different variables I want to show the different beta coefficients, but not of the coefficients I obtain running the probit command but the beta coefficients of the marginal effects.

Due to a selection problem in my framework I can not use the command "dprobit"in order to estimate the marginal effects.Instead I use the command "margins dx/dy"after having used the command "heckprobit"

Do you know how I can obtain the beta coefficients? Do I just need to multiply the coefficients I get from the command "margins" by σ_j/σ_y (j being the variable of the coefficient and y the dependent variable)?

Thank you very much in advance.

Best regards,

Marco

[Jorge L. Guzman]

Hi marco, can you give us an output of the results you get? I use logits and margins all the time...I might be able to help you...in order to obtain the real effect you would have to multiply the marginal effects by the standard deviation (obtained through a simple summarize..)..

[Dimitriy V. Masterov]

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