Re: st: Fixed effects or random effects model?

[Muhammad Anees <anees@aneconomist.com>]

If you need to use mixture of fixed and random effects, population
averaged model would be the option. Rest about panel data issues are
best answered by Panel Data Econometrics (2006) of Hadi H Baltagi,
Microeconometrics, Methods and Applications by A. Colin Cameron and
Pravin K. Trivedi and also their Microeconometrics using Stata. Rest
of the issues are shortly and well described in Stata panel data
manual.

On Fri, Jan 6, 2012 at 8:43 PM, sardar ahmad <sahmad81@hotmail.co.uk> wrote:
> Dear all,
> I am a PhD student and want to analyse Panel data. I have just started to learn about panel data analysis, so I apologise if my question is very basic.The data is for 8 years for 280 companies, I used Hausman test to decide whether to use fixed effects or random effects. The test shows that I should use fixed effects. However, I want to include a number of control variables which are constant over time e.g. industry in which a company is operating. As Stata drops such variables from the model, so I was wondering will it be justified to use random effects instead, even if the Hausman test is significant. Or are there any other alternatives?
> Many thanks in advance.
> Ahmad
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