# Questions tagged [econometrics]

Econometrics is the application of statistical methods to economic data for various purposes such as of testing hypotheses, infering causal relationships and forecasting future trends. Only use this tag for questions relating to the theoretical aspect of an econometric technique.

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### Why standard errors in country-level variables are higher than that in firm-level variables?

From this dicussion, the commentor said Lastly, firm fixed effects may absorb more variation and likely reduced the size of their standard errors. In practice, I also mainly see that the standard ...
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### What is the “dummy variable trap”?

I saw an interesting Economics post yesterday with the long comment. I post the regression result of the OP here I saw @chan1142 stated that Thanks. I see the _cons row. That's the intercept; the ...
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### Why excluding intercept is dangerous if there is no literature back up in DID setting?

Recently, I run the regression for the generalised DID following this paper: $Y_{it}$ = $\alpha$ + $\beta$ $(Leniency Law)_{kt}$ + $\delta$$X_{ikt} + \theta$$_t$ + $\gamma$$_i +\epsilon$$_{it}$ (1)...
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### A revisit to simple DID and Generalised DID

After a couple of questions being asked, I am curious about the inclusion of Post and Treat variable in a simple DID (two groups two-time period). We mainly know there are mainly two types of DID ...
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### What does "dependent and independent variables only vary at the ($g,t$) level mean?

From de Chaisemartin and D'Haultfoeuille 2020, p.2969 I saw an equation $D_{g,t}$ $=$ $\alpha$ + $\gamma_g$ + $\delta_t$ + $\epsilon_{g,t}$ $D_{g,t}$ is the treatment in group $g$ at period $t$ They ...
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### What is the difference between ATE and ATT?

I saw ATE and ATT in some discussions regarding DID settings recently. ATE is the Average Treatment Effect while ATT is Average Treatment Effects on Treated. I am wondering the difference between ...
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### What are the meanings of “difference-in-differences” and “causal estimand”?

In one discussion, I saw the answer containing two words that I think can be used interchangeably, but I am not sure if it's the case. I simply state in other posts that the "generalized" **...
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### What does “Difference-in-Diffrence” models with heterogeneous effects" mean?

Today, when reading this paper, page 3, I saw a sentence By decomposing the DD estimator into its sources of variation (the 2x2 DD’s) and providing an explicit interpretation of the weights in terms ...
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### can i treat panel data as pooled data?

I'm working with panel data on Stata. However, I want to perform the ROC analysis and for what I know it is way simpler using the "logit" command instead of "xtlogit". Thus, my ...
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### Asking for the exception of unparallel trend in DID testing

When reading this paper, The Common Trends Assuption section, p.457, I saw a paragraph: Researchers, however, must also think carefully about the conceptual reasons for which the common trends ...
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### Why we need to add firm and year relating independent variables in two-way fixed effect model?

From what I know, these terms are very basic in econometrics but I still not yet fully got it. To me, year fixed effect is to control time-variant omitted variables and firm fixed effect is to control ...
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### How to clarify the description of common trend assumption?

From reading a paper, I saw the way they describe the common trend is Specifically, DID designs assume that confounders varying across the groups are time invariant, and time-varying confounders are ...
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### How to justify the treatment and control groups for Difference-In-Difference with staggered implementation of laws?

A. Background: Dong, 2019 and Dasgupta, 2019 used the same way to generate the treatment and control groups because they all learn about the impact of the same laws on different dependent variables. I ...
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### Is exogeneity guaranteed for a lottery-generated instrumental variable?

If using $z$ as an instrument for $x$, to study the effect $x$ has on $y$ and given that $z$ was indeed generated through a lottery, is it definite that exogeneity of $z$ will hold? I have looked at ...
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### Question on the choice of boundary in the CUSUM test when we make some resampling

Question on the choice of boundary in the CUSUM test when we make some resampling We are considering to make a CUSUM test for some economical time series $𝑋=(𝑥_1,..,x_n)$. Suppose 𝑋 contains many ...
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### Quarterly regression, year-fixed effects

I am trying to inspect the heterogeneous effects of a USA-based shock on a panel of countries using quarterly panel data. My variables of interest are the USA-based shock (which has only temporal ...
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### How to handle the missing values' issue of newly listed stocks?

I am trying to test some asset pricing models on 10 portfolios for the period of 2010-2020. The problem is that three of these portfolios included stocks that are newly listed in 2017 and 2018, so I ...
Given the following random walk model $\Delta Y_t = Y_t - Y_{t-1}=\beta_0+u_t$, where $u_t \sim N(0,\sigma^2_u)$, how do we derive the standard error $\beta_0$ in terms of the estimated $\sigma^2_u$? ...