Paul,
Date sent: Mon, 30 Jun 2003 14:02:56 +0200
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From: Paul Ngobo <[email protected]>
Subject: st: FIXED EFFECTS VS FIRST-DIFFERENCING
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> Can someone please tell me when to adopt a first differencing estimation
> and when to adopt a fixed effects estimation? I am estimating a model over
> 9 years with multiplicative effects of the independent variables. While the
> IV-FE estimation does not yield many significant coefficients, the IV-FD
> does. So I wonder if there is a technique (like the HAUSMAN TEST) that
> could allow me to select one of these estimation methods?
> Many thanks in advance
First-differences, fixed effects, Arellano-Bond, etc., are all
different ways of estimating the same model. What makes one
estimation method more or less appropriate than another is basically
the disturbance term. Is it autocorrelated? Is it correlated with
any of your regressors?
A good place to start reading about this is the discussion in the
manual for xtabond, Stata's implementation of the Arellano-Bond
estimator.
Hope this helps.
--Mark
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