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Almost Consistent Estimation of Panel Probit Models with “Small” Fixed Effects 

Authors: Franccedilois Laisney ab; Michael Lechner c
Affiliations:   a BETA-THEME, Universiteacute Louis Pasteur, Strasbourg, France
b Zentrum fuumlr Europaumlische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW), Mannheim, Germany
c Swiss Institute for International Economics and Applied Economic Research (SIAW), Universitaumlt St. Gallen, Switzerland
DOI: 10.1081/ETC-120017972
Publication Frequency: 6 issues per year
Published in: journal Econometric Reviews, Volume 22, Issue 1 January 2003 , pages 1 - 28
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Abstract

We propose four different GMM estimators that allow almost consistent estimation of the structural parameters of panel probit models with fixed effects for the case of small Tand large N. The moments used are derived for each period from a first order approximation of the mean of the dependent variable conditional on explanatory variables and on the fixed effect. The estimators differ w.r.t. the choice of instruments and whether they use trimming to reduce the bias or not. In a Monte Carlo study, we compare these estimators with pooled probit and conditional logit estimators for different data generating processes. The results show that the proposed estimators outperform these competitors in several situations.
Keywords: Panel data; Binary choice model; Generalised method of moments; Fixed effects; JEL Classification:C23; C35; C51
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