Estimation and Inference in Dynamic Unbalanced Panel-data Models with a Small Number of Individuals
- 1 January 2005
- journal article
- research article
- Published by SAGE Publications in The Stata Journal: Promoting communications on statistics and Stata
- Vol. 5 (4), 473-500
- https://doi.org/10.1177/1536867x0500500401
Abstract
This article describes a new Stata routine, xtlsdvc, that computes bias-corrected least-squares dummy variable (LSDV) estimators and their bootstrap variance–covariance matrix for dynamic (possibly) unbalanced panel-data models with strictly exogenous regressors. A Monte Carlo analysis is carried out to evaluate the finite-sample performance of the bias-corrected LSDV estimators in comparison to the original LSDV estimator and three popular N-consistent estimators: Arellano–Bond, Anderson–Hsiao and Blundell–Bond. Results strongly support the bias-corrected LSDV estimators according to bias and root mean squared error criteria when the number of individuals is small.Keywords
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