econometrics

Performing a parallel pre-trend test in universal absorbing treatments in R

Introduction In a recent paper from the Journal of Research, Innovation and Technologies published last year, there was a significant discussion (Riveros Gavilanes, 2023) about how control variables might be related to the fulfillment of parallel trends in event study (or dynamic differences-in-differences) of panel data. In this article, we will replicate such paper and …

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Panel Data Nonlinear Simultaneous Equation Models with Two-Stage Least Squares using Stata

In this article, we will follow Woolridge (2002) procedure to estimate a set of equations with nonlinear functional forms for panel data using the two-stage least squares estimator. It has to be mentioned that this topic is quite uncommon and not used a lot in applied econometrics, this is due that instrumenting the nonlinear terms …

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Taking Logarithms of Growth Rates and Log-based Data.

A usual practice while we’re handling economic data, is the use of logarithms, the main idea behind using them is to reduce the Heteroscedasticity -HT- of the data (Nau, 2019). Thus reducing HT, implies reducing the variance of the data. Several times, different authors implement some kind of double logarithm transformation, which is defined as …

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The impact of functional form over the normality assumption in the residuals

A discussed solution in order to accomplish the normality assumption in regression models relates to the correct specification of a Data Generating Process (Rodríguez Revilla, 2014), the objective here is to demonstrate how functional form might influence the distribution of the residuals in a regression model using ordinary least squares technique. Let’s start with a …

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