Description
The second edition of this acclaimed graduate text provides a unified treatment of the analysis of two kinds of data structures used in contemporary econometric research: cross section data and panel data. The book covers both linear and nonlinear models, including models with dynamics and/or individual heterogeneity. In addition to general estimation frameworks (particularly methods of moments and maximum likelihood), specific linear and nonlinear methods are covered in detail, including probit and logit models, multinomial and ordered choice models, Tobit models and two-part extensions, models for count data, various censored and missing data schemes, causal (or treatment) effect estimation, and duration analysis. Control function and correlated random effects approaches are expanded to allow estimation of complicated models in the presence of endogeneity and heterogeneity.
This second edition has been substantially updated and revised. Improvements include a broader class of models for missing data problems; more detailed treatment of cluster sampling problems, an important topic for empirical researchers; expanded discussion of “generalized instrumental variables” (GIV) estimation; new coverage of inverse probability weighting; a more complete framework for estimating treatment effects with assumptions concerning the intervention and different data structures, including panel data, and a firmly established link between econometric approaches to nonlinear panel data and the “generalized estimating equation” literature popular in statistics and other fields. New attention is given to explaining when particular econometric methods can be applied; the goal is not only to tell readers what does work, but why certain “obvious” procedures do not. The numerous included exercises, both theoretical and computer-based, allow the reader to extend methods covered in the text and discover new insights.
Table of Contents I INTRODUCTION AND BACKGROUND
1 Introduction
2 Conditional Expectations and Related Concepts in Econometrics
3 Basic Asymptotic Theory
4 Single-Equation Linear Model and Ordinary Least Squares Estimation
II LINEAR MODELS
5 Instrumental Variables Estimation of Single-Equation Linear Models
6 Additional Single-Equation Topics
7 Estimating Systems of Equations by Ordinary Least Squares and Generalized Least Squares
8 System Estimation by Instrumental Variables
9 Simultaneous Equations Models
10 Basic Linear Unobserved E¤ects Panel Data Models
11 More Topics in Linear Unobserved Effects Models
III GENERAL APPROACHES TO NONLINEAR ESTIMATION
12 M-Estimation, Nonlinear Regression, and Quantile Regression
13 Maximum Likelihood Methods
14 Generalized Method of Moments and Minimum Distance Estimation
IV NONLINEAR MODELS AND RELATED TOPICS
15 Binary Response Models
16 Multinomial and Ordered Response Models
17 Corner Solution Responses
18 Count, Fractional, and Other Nonnegative Responses
19 Censored Data, Sample Selection, and Attrition
20 Stratified Sampling and Cluster Sampling
21 Estimating Average Treatment Effects
22 Duration Analysis