Seminar No. 232

Title: An Econometric Approach to the Estimation of Multi-level Models

Speaker: Yimin Yang, Renmin University of China

Time: July 6, 2020    13:30-15:00     (GMT+8:00)

Venue: Online

About the speaker:

Yimin Yang is an Assistant Professor of economics at Hanqing Advanced Institute of Economics and Finance, Renmin University of China. He received his Ph.D. from Michigan State University. His research interests include econometrics and labor economics.

Abstract:

In this paper we consider “multidimensional” or “hierarchical” or “multilevel” models that are popular in the educational and economics literatures. Instead of two levels (individuals over time in the standard panel data model), we now have multiple levels (e.g. students in classrooms in schools in districts). We apply standard methods of analysis for econometric panel data to multilevel models. Specifically, we generalize the results of Hausman and Taylor and the subsequent literature to these models. This is a non-trivial extension because we now have more than one kind of time-invariant effect and more than one kind of “between” regression. We discuss estimation by GMM both with and without the assumption of no conditional heteroskedasticity. We also discuss endogeneity and dynamic models, and we generalize the concept of testing the exogeneity assumptions using a variable addition test.

Interested in this event? Please contact Feiyan at feiyantang@jnu.edu.cn by July 5 (12 PM) to register.