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Panel data — information gathered from the same individuals or units at several different points in time — are commonly used in the social sciences to test theories of individual and social change. This book highlights the developments in this technique in a range of disciplines and analytic traditions.
Spurious Association and Autocorrelated Disturbances
Spurious Association and Autocorrelated Disturbances
Previous chapters have described procedures for strengthening causal inference by estimating panel models with various lag structures and measurement error in the variables. Successful causal inference in the panel context, however, depends not only on specifying the proper lag structure ...