Estimation for Dynamic and Static Panel Probit Models with Large Individual Effects

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• 作者：Wei Gao ; Wicher Bergsma and Qiwei Yao
• 刊名：Journal of Time Series Analysis
• 出版年：2017
• 出版时间：March 2017
• 年：2017
• 卷：38
• 期：2
• 页码：266-284
• 全文大小：217K
• ISSN：1467-9892

文摘

For discrete panel data, the dynamic relationship between successive observations is often of interest. We consider a dynamic probit model for short panel data. A problem with estimating the dynamic parameter of interest is that the model contains a large number of nuisance parameters, one for each individual. Heckman proposed to use maximum likelihood estimation of the dynamic parameter, which, however, does not perform well if the individual effects are large. We suggest new estimators for the dynamic parameter, based on the assumption that the individual parameters are random and possibly large. Theoretical properties of our estimators are derived, and a simulation study shows they have some advantages compared with Heckman's estimator and the modified profile likelihood estimator for fixed effects.