Table 6

Heckman’s (1979) two-stage analysis

Panel A: first-stage regression
Dependent Variable = FF
Coefficientz-statisticp-value
SIZE−0.013−1.5500.122
FAGE0.50517.8300.000***
BM−0.008−1.1100.268
ROA0.3552.6400.008***
VOLAT6.9063.9200.000***
EMPTURN−0.067−8.9100.000***
SEGMENT−0.208−6.0500.000***
BIND−0.347−4.6700.000***
HHI0.4323.3000.001***
ΔIND_VOL−0.182−5.1100.000***
Constant0.2040.8600.393
Year fixed effects Yes 
Industry fixed effects Yes 
Observations 15,726 
Pseudo-R2 0.081 
Panel B: Heckman’s (1979) second-stage regression results
Dependent Variable = CEO_TURN
Model (1)Model (2)
FF−0.274***−0.255***
(–5.920)(–3.831)
FF×TRANS 0.050**
 (2.002)
TRANS −0.055***
 (–2.695)
SIZE0.051***0.031
(2.604)(1.096)
LEV0.0780.052
(0.358)(0.190)
ROA−3.444***−3.357***
(–10.914)(–8.893)
BM−0.040−0.040
(–0.410)(–0.303)
RET0.140***0.143***
(3.163)(3.359)
SGROWTH0.0570.058
(0.814)(0.839)
CFO0.0540.051
(0.655)(0.548)
STD_CFO1.871***1.843***
(4.224)(3.287)
FAGE−0.273***−0.270**
(–2.794)(–2.132)
EMPTURN1.358***1.355***
(8.562)(7.946)
BLOCK−0.001−0.001
(–0.070)(–0.094)
BSIZE0.228**0.230*
(2.501)(1.812)
BIND−0.121−0.151
(–0.699)(–0.670)
CEO_DUAL−0.208***−0.210***
(–4.342)(–3.549)
CEO_GENDER−0.148−0.154
(–1.530)(–1.319)
CEO_OWN0.1160.142
(0.236)(0.288)
IMR−1.084***−1.088***
(–3.542)(–2.801)
Constant−0.1050.073
(–0.180)(0.099)
Year fixed effectsYesYes
Industry fixed effectsYesYes
Observations14,31114,311
Pseudo-R20.0370.038
Test: TRANS + FF×TRANS 7.26***

Note(s): This table presents Heckman’s (1979) two-stage analysis. Panel A presents the first-stage probit regression results. Panel B presents Heckman’s (1979) second-stage regression results. Numbers in parentheses are t-statistics clustered by firm and year. Superscript ***, ** and * represent significance levels at the 1, 5 and 10% levels, respectively. Variables are defined in  Appendix

Source(s): Authors' own work

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