Re: st: Panel data, missing values and estimation in differences.

[David Jacobs <jacobs.184@sociology.osu.edu>]

Check out the recent Wooldridge book on pooled and cross sectional 
modeling.  My recollection is that first differencing and using dummies 
will give identical results only when you have just two cross 
sections.  Results diverge with more cross sections than two due to 
differences in the way these two procedures respond to serial correlation.

Wooldridge, Jeffrey.  2002.  Econometric Analysis of Cross Section and 
Panel Data.  MIT Press.

Dave Jacobs

At 11:54 AM 5/6/2004 +0200, you wrote:

> Hello to all,
> I have two questions regarding panel data estimation.
> I am running two regressions with the within estimator, once inserting the 
> dummy variables, the other with the differenced series. Since I get 
> different results for certain coefficients, I was trying to understand if 
> this can depend, beside some theoretical problems (endogeneity, errors of 
> measurment etc), from the changed size of the sample. I have 18 countries 
> in my sample, and the differences in the number of observations between 
> levels and differences is 18. Intuitively  Stata should eliminate the 
> first year. But if I run the regression in levels excluding the first year 
> (if != option)the number of observations does not change!So,:
> - Is there a way to understand what observations does Stata run the 
> regression on in the difference equation and run the levels one on the 
> same ones?
> Apart from this, I have a probably elementary question that is troubling me.
> -If a variable is constant in levels for a certain country(and thus 
> captured by the dummy) , hence assuming values 0 in differences, does this 
> country participate in the estimation of the coefficient of that variable 
> in the difference equation?
>
> Thanks a lot for any help you may be able to give me, and sorry for the 
> lenght of the message.
> Have a good day
>
>
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