Using National Agricultural Workers Survey data, we estimate U.S. farm worker wage differentials by legal status. In order to adequately correct sample selection bias, we develop a Heckman-type two-stage method with an ordered probit model in the first stage and a wage equation model in the second stage.Farm Management,

Emerson, Robert D.

Iwai, Nobuyuki

Walters, Lurleen M.

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