Questions tagged [applied-econometrics]
Use this tag to discuss empirical papers and issues arising when applying theoretical models to data.
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Interpretation of coefficients in ECM for consumption
Say that we are regressing consumption $C_t$ on time $Y_t$. Furthermore, suppose that both series are $I(1)$ and are co-integrated.
Given this, we set up the error correction model (ECM) as follows: $...
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What stops infinite money creation?
A bank shorts treasuries. This raises rates. The fed then buys bonds (assuming an inflation target). This injects more money for the bank to short more.
What stops infinite money creation if a bank ...
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Is there empirical evidence on usability of Cobb-Douglas production function?
This is my first question at Stack Exchange. I am trying to estimate simple Cobb-Douglas production function $Y=AL^{\alpha}K^{\beta}$
on US data and receive an unrealistic estimate of $\alpha$ and a ...
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How to run Panel data analysis when data on the dependent variable is on a 5 year interval basis and that on independent variable is on yearly basis?
I am reading a paper which empirically tests if primary exports affect education attainment in LAC countries over the period 1965 to 2010. It uses percentage of secondary school enrollment as ...
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What are the statistical tests I need to perform before I regress GDP on multiple variables?
I'm using data over 10 countries for the period 1975 to 2010. My objective is to check if the chosen regressors have significant effect on GDP.
I have very basic knowledge of econometrics which I ...
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what can be the proxy variable for measure of product innovation?
My objective is to prove that international trade leads human capital formation which leads to economic growth. I am regressing GDP on multiple variables among which Human capital is one. According to ...
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The Household Production Function
I was wondering whether someone can explain the household production function. Specifically, the variant presented in Patanayak et al 2005. The paper uses the HPF to determine household willingness to ...
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Performing good forecasts for the GDP
What forecasting models would you recommend to forecast the GDP?
Through a quick research I have found that VEC, VAR, SVAR models are the most common. Are they though good forecasters? Or are they ...
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Cobb-Douglas production function with expenditures rather than units
I want to estimate a standard Cobb-Douglas production function of the form
$ Y=AK^{\alpha}L^{\beta}$. However, I only have data on labour expenditures, not units of labour. I don't have data on the ...
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treatment of non-consecutive periods in panel and ʀ SFA
ɪ am estimating a Stochastic Frontier Analysis (SFA estimated by MʟE) model for a panel of seven periods. ɪ want to know if ɪ can use all the periods in the estimation procedure and how are they ...
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Is measurement error in self-reported health a problem in this scenario…?
I am running regressions to estimate the impact of health conditions on life satisfaction.
I have read a paper that showed that there is likely to be measurement error in the self-reported health ...
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What is the interpration of results if adding or subtracting a control variable effects the significance of explanotary variables?
I am conducting some regressions on economic growth determinants and I am disillusioned. Essentially by choosing what groups of variable to regress I can get the desired significance. What does this ...
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Regression analysis with interaction and decomposed main effect
I'm trying to figure out if I need to include the main effect in a regression analysis with an interaction if I am already including a decomposed version of the main effect.
For example, let:
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Building a time-series demand forecasting model
I am forecasting demand for certain types of goods and services, which I expect to be correlated to a sub-set of a basket of macroeconomic indicators (considering 15-20 indicators)
I do not know ...
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Estimating CES utility (not production) function parameters
The CES utility function has the form
\begin{equation}
u(x_1,\dots,x_n)=\left[\sum_{i=1}^n\alpha_ix_i^\rho\right]^{1/\rho},
\end{equation}
where $\alpha_i$ is the consumption share parameter and $\...
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is there a difference between E[e|x]=0 and E[e|d=1]-E[e|d=0] in continuous vs discrete case in regressions?
in the discrete case, if assignemt is random, then i can express E[y|d=1]-E[y|d=0] = B + E[e|d=1]-E[e|d=0], where the expectation of the errors are the same for both groups and become zero. Where I am ...
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Should I include lags in an LLC unit root test?
I have panel data (N = 10, T = 20), which I intend to run a series of regressions on. I first want to see if my data are stationary in levels or in differences. To do this, I have been performing ...
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How to predict income n years after graduation using income dataset with age, but not graduation year?
I'm trying to predict the income of graduates of certain Master's programs n years after graduation, using the American Community Survey individual level dataset to calibrate my equation. It gives me ...
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Why hasn't the huge increase in supply provided by Airbnb decreased prices?
Simple supply and demand economics would suggest that the huge increase in the supply of rooms to rent by Airbnb should have reduced the price of rental significantly in those cities where Airbnb is ...
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Engel’s Coefficient Data
Does anyone know of any good data sources where we can find Engel’s Coefficients by nation?
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Econometrics: Is it feasible to use the “effect of the treatment” estimations from a diff-in-diff as dependent variable?
Basically I have many treated units and I would like to estimate (by applying the Diff-in-Diff methodology) the effect of the treatment.
In my particular case it's very likely to observe certain ...
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Vector Autoregressions
Suppose running a VAR system featuring the central bank interest rate, inflation and GDP.
Start by estimating each equation by OLS. How should you interpret the OLS residuals to these equations?
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Mankiw, Romer & Weil: Estimating Implied Alpha & Beta
I am replicating Mankiw, Romer & Weil (1992) with data from 1995 through 2015, and I wondering how they estimated the implied alpha and beta.
Thank you,
For those curious, the paper can be found....
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What is a good proxy for government quality?
Is it ok to use corruption as a proxy for government quality?
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When using OLS is it always necessary to drop the weak and insignificant variable? [closed]
Some of my variable shows weak collinear relationship on my dependent variable.. how should I address this?
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VAR model OLS line by line
I am estimating a VAR model line by line.
Lets say the conditional variances are correlated.
We would expect size distortion. So we would use another method, perhaps a HAC standard error to account ...
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How should I rebase my GDP?
I have a constant GDP data from 1988 to 2009 in constant 1985 prices and GDP data from 2009 to 2017 in constant 2000 prices. My question is how should I rebase my GDP?
Upon searching the web, i don'...
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Synthetic Control Method
I need to study Synthetic Control Method for my term paper. So can anyone suggest some book/literature from where I can study Synthetic Control Method on my own?.
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What is the tolerable level for multicollinearity? and possible remedial measures for it?
My data has issues of multicollinearity. Upon estimating, I found out that my data have high levels of VIF In however I was confused as to what level of VIF can I possibly ignore the issue of ...
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Transformation of cutpoints in Ordinal Probit/Logit regression
The likelihood for an ordinal probit/logit regression model is given as -
$f(y|\beta ,\gamma ,z ) = \prod_{1}^{n} \left [ \Phi (\gamma _{j} - x_{i}'\beta ) - \Phi (\gamma _{j-1} - x_{i}'\beta ) \...
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How do I fill gaps in my data?
In my study, I have 5 independent variables which contains 21 observation each. However one of my independent variables have 3 gaps. What should I do?
e,g
I would need to know the effect of ...
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How to control for population in Difference-in-Difference?
Random example, but let's say I'm examining the effect of a health program on influenza cases in India. They just randomly start the program in 7 of the 29 states. I have data on the number of flu ...
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Error Correction Model with two independent (control) variables [duplicate]
Is it possible to build an Error Correction Model with two independent ( control) variables? I mean with one dependent variable, and two independent variables.
If yes, what are the assumptions/...
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Error Correction Model with more than one independent variables
I was wondering if it is possible to set up an Error Correction Model with two independent variables (one dep var, and two indep vars)?
If yes, what are assumptions/conditions to be met?
In the ...
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Difference-in-differences with long time horizon and repeated treatments
I have a high-frequency panel dataset on the order of $i=150$ and $t=5000$. I am interested in studying the causal impact of a treatment with the following characteristics:
The same unit can be ...
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primary impact on real estate prices/taxes
Are my housing prices/taxes more influenced by the $40M beach house a few miles away from my home or those in the lower-class well beyond my county line?
Assuming a few basics:
there are differing ...
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Exchange rate volatility
Colleagues,
I have started an analysis on spatial econometrics models, and looking for data to compute an exchange rate volatility. My variables to construct the weight matrices are all bilateral ...
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To the following data, what kind of econometric analysis can be conducted/ or what type of relationship can be established? [closed]
I have data for sale in petroleum products across different states in India of both public sector and private sector companies for past 10 years.
No. of years - 2008 to 2018 monthly data for 10 years
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How do I measure effects over years in panel data with individuals?
I'm working with a longitudinal panel dataset that surveys the same few thousand individuals biennially and I have six years of this data. My dependent variable would be how much individuals spend on ...
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Coming up with a Research Topic for Undergraduate Paper
I am currently a senior in economics, and I have been pondering ideas for doing a research paper. Sometimes I go about thinking theory and trying to find applications I could apply it to empirically, ...
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Minimum sample size for cross-sectional RDD
I haven't done a regression discontinuity design (RDD) before. I know it requires a large sample size for identification, thus I fear that my sample size is not large enough.
The study is cross-...
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Help with undergrad econometric project
I am working on undergrad research in econometrics and am seeking some advice/help in terms of finding data sets and picking variables. I have an idea chosen for my topic, but I need to make a ...
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What is an unconditional model for a time series variable?
If I am being asked to do an unconditional analysis of a time series variable, lets say GDP starting in 2000, what model am I supposed to estimate?
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Any examples of non-parallelism making Diff-in-Diff estimation biased?
The key assumption in a Differences in Differences design is that both the control and the treatment group have parallel tendencies, that is, they'd follow similar paths over time if there was no ...
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What are the identification problems in measuring peer effects?
I am currently writing my bachelor thesis on peer effects. However, the more I read about the identification problems (I read e.g. Manski, Moffitt, Angrist, Goldsmith et al.), the less I understand. I ...
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Empirical implementation of Milbourne et al's 2003 model of growth for time series data
I'm interested in testing the relationship of public investment in human capital and infrastructure, and the rate of growth of the GDP for Colombia, during a 20 years period. Given that I'm only an ...
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How are rotation matrices used in structural VAR identification through sign restrictions?
I saw this identification method is used in several working papers but to me it is impossible to understand how it works by simply reading them.
I have searched many books and lecture notes in order ...
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Is health care equal in the emergancy room? [closed]
How does financial status dictate the level of care differ? Where can you find the best healthcare income to medical service rendered?
I understand that health care differs depending on a ...
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Difference between multinomial logit and conditional logit
I'm trying to decide whether to run a multinomial logit or a conditonal logit (McFadden, 1973). I have data from a choice-based conjoint study in which each of the respondent's choices was between a ...
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Discrete choice model without outside option?
In most empirical studies of discrete choice, the presence of an outside good is assumed.
Can you give an example of a (well published) empirical paper, where there is no outside good and thus ...
