I am examining the relation between tax planning and firm value. My data is an unbalanced panel data and I estimated the regression with fixed effects. As I suspect a selection bias, I want to perform a heckman selection model.
However, I am not sure about the control variables and whether to exclude any in the model.
My regression looked like this:
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reghdfe tobin btd TA sales ppe vol nolassets foreigninc std ltd rd, absorb(Year sic) vce(cluster isin Year)
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heckman tobin btd TA sales ppe vol nolassets foreigninc std ltd rd i.Year, select(taxavoid = TA sales vol ppe nolassets foreigninc std ltd rd i.Year) vce(robust)
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Heckman selection model Number of obs = 2,829
(regression model with sample selection) Censored obs = 1,435
Uncensored obs = 1,394
Wald chi2(19) = 237.86
Log pseudolikelihood = -4144.806 Prob > chi2 = 0.0000
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| Robust
| Coef. Std. Err. z P>|z| [95% Conf. Interval]
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tobin |
w_btd | 6.904373 1.240759 5.56 0.000 4.472531 9.336215
w_TA | -4.898546 .6854721 -7.15 0.000 -6.242046 -3.555045
sales | -.0730264 .0401021 -1.82 0.069 -.1516251 .0055723
ppe2 | -1.255607 .1520859 -8.26 0.000 -1.55369 -.9575241
vol | .0260516 .0290061 0.90 0.369 -.0307993 .0829026
nolassets | 121.1902 113.3512 1.07 0.285 -100.974 343.3544
foreigninc | .014931 .0835962 0.18 0.858 -.1489145 .1787765
std | .3343805 .8761062 0.38 0.703 -1.382756 2.051517
ltd | .4227263 .1981058 2.13 0.033 .0344461 .8110065
changerd | 23.37676 4.954492 4.72 0.000 13.66613 33.08739
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_cons | 1.31306 .1498813 8.76 0.000 1.019298 1.606822
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taxavoid |
w_TA | .6723251 .3413934 1.97 0.049 .0032062 1.341444
sales | -.2075946 .0338522 -6.13 0.000 -.2739438 -.1412455
vol | .0559122 .0211032 2.65 0.008 .0145507 .0972737
ppe2 | .5709638 .1226611 4.65 0.000 .3305524 .8113752
nolassets | 419.0152 123.7301 3.39 0.001 176.5086 661.5217
foreigninc | .1127357 .0660463 1.71 0.088 -.0167126 .242184
std | 1.129645 .5186263 2.18 0.029 .1131565 2.146134
ltd | .1060875 .0973646 1.09 0.276 -.0847435 .2969186
changerd | -.0004607 1.700443 -0.00 1.000 -3.333269 3.332347
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_cons | .0981113 .0917423 1.07 0.285 -.0817003 .2779229
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/athrho | -.009978 .0570314 -0.17 0.861 -.1217576 .1018015
/lnsigma | .2156416 .0404441 5.33 0.000 .1363726 .2949106
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rho | -.0099777 .0570258 -.1211595 .1014513
sigma | 1.240658 .0501773 1.146109 1.343006
lambda | -.0123789 .0707588 -.1510635 .1263057
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Wald test of indep. eqns. (rho = 0): chi2(1) = 0.03 Prob > chi2 = 0.8611I also tried using the code xtheckmanfe but it does keep calculating and calculating and does not deliver any results.
1.) My question is now, is the code for the model conducted right?
2.) My fixed effects model before also showed a positive relation between tax avoidance (btd) and firm value (Tobin). Am I interpreting the Heckman model right that the coefficient of 6.9 also shows a positive relation or do I have to interpret it in another way?
3.) Is it possible that I do not have a selection problem because I cannot reject the H0 of the pictured Wald test?
I am using Stata 14.
Thank you in advance!
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