Undertaking non-agrarian income-generating activities to reduce overreliance on agriculture, production failures, and income fluctuations is a household-amenable, self-insurance mechanism, which provides employment opportunities capital investment. This article examines the determinants of participation in non-farm effect household income. Heckman two-step procedure was used analyze three-wave ...

We present a new Stata command, bmte (bias-minimizing treatment effects), which implements two new estimators proposed in Millimet and Tchernis (2012) designed to estimate the effect of treatment when there exists selection on unobserved variables and appropriate exclusion restrictions are unavailable. In addition, the bmte command estimates treatment effects from several alternative estimators...

This paper estimates wage rates using the Heckman Procedure and a tra­ ditional method. The estimation becomes necessary when the analysis requires a measure of the individual's opportunity cost of time. Since a large fraction of the adults in the sample do not participate in the labor market, the simple estimation by ordinary least squares would cause bias in the coefficients. Labor force part...