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Panel Data and Unobservable Individual Effects

1981/11/01 by Jerry A. Hausman, William E. Taylor · 37 citations
Economics, Econometrics and Finance · #Fiscal Policy and Economic Growth #Economic Growth and Productivity #Monetary Policy and Economic Impact

paper · doi:10.2307/1911406

Abstract

Abstract An important purpose in pooling time-series and cross-section data is to control for individual-specific unobservable effects which may be correlated with other explanatory variables, e.g. latent ability in measuring returns to schooling in earnings equations or managerial ability in measuring returns to scale in firm cost functions. Using instrumental variables and the time-invariant characteristics of the latent variable, we derive: 1. (1) a test for the presence of this effect and for the over-identifying restriction we use; 2. (2) necessary and sufficient conditions for identification of all the parameters in the model; and 3. (3) the asymptotically efficient instrumental variables estimator and conditions under which it differs from the within-groups estimator. We calculate efficient estimates of a wage equation from the Michigan income dynamics data which indicate substantial differences from within-groups and Balestra-Nerlove estimates — particularly a significantly higher estimate of the returns to schooling.

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