• Media type: E-Book; Report
  • Title: Identification in a binary choice panel data model with a predetermined covariate
  • Contributor: Bonhomme, Stéphane [Author]; Dano, Kevin [Author]; Graham, Bryan S. [Author]
  • imprint: London: Centre for Microdata Methods and Practice (cemmap), 2023
  • Language: English
  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.47004/wp.cem.2023.0123
  • Keywords: Partial Identification ; C23 ; Incidental Parameters ; Panel Data ; C33 ; Sequential Moment Conditions ; Feedback
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  • Description: We study identification in a binary choice panel data model with a single predetermined binary covariate (i.e., a covariate sequentially exogenous conditional on lagged outcomes and covariates). The choice model is indexed by a scalar parameter θ, whereas the distribution of unit-specific heterogeneity, as well as the feedback process that maps lagged outcomes into future covariate realizations, are left unrestricted. We provide a simple condition under which θ is never point-identified, no matter the number of time periods available. This condition is satisfied in most models, including the logit one. We also characterize the identified set of θ and show how to compute it using linear programming techniques. While θ is not generally point-identified, its identified set is informative in the examples we analyze numerically, suggesting that meaningful learning about θ is possible even in short panels with feedback.
  • Access State: Open Access