Applied Panel Data Analysis for Economic and Social Surveys

• Κύριοι συγγραφείς: Andreß, Hans-Jürgen (Συγγραφέας), Golsch, Katrin (Συγγραφέας), Schmidt, Alexander W. (Συγγραφέας)
• Συγγραφή απο Οργανισμό/Αρχή: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Μορφή: Ηλεκτρονική πηγή Ηλ. βιβλίο
• Γλώσσα: English
• Έκδοση: Berlin, Heidelberg : Springer Berlin Heidelberg : Imprint: Springer, 2013.
• Θέματα: Statistics.; Econometrics.; Social sciences.; Statistics for Social Science, Behavorial Science, Education, Public Policy, and Law.; Methodology of the Social Sciences.

Many economic and social surveys are designed as panel studies, which provide important data for describing social changes and testing causal relations between social phenomena. This textbook shows how to manage, describe, and model these kinds of data. It presents models for continuous and categori...

Πίνακας περιεχομένων:

• Introduction: Benefits and challenges of the panel design
• Outline of the book
• Audience and prerequisites
• Acknowledgements
• Managing panel data: The nature of panel data
• The basics of panel data management
• Three case studies on poverty in Germany
• How to represent a population with panel data?- Conclusion and further reading
• Describing and modeling panel data: Some basic terminology
• Measurements over time are not independent
• Describing the dependent variable
•  Explaining the dependent variable over time: typical explanatory variables
• Modeling panel data.-  Estimating models for panel data
• Overview of subsequent chapters
• Panel analysis of continuous variables: Modeling the level of Y
• Modeling the change of Y.-  Conclusion and further reading
•  Panel analysis of categorical variables: Modeling the level of Y: Discrete response models for panel data
• Modeling the change of Y: Discrete-time event history models for panel data
• Conclusion and further reading
• Conclusion: How to do your own panel analysis
•  A: Functions of random variables
• B: Estimation and testing:  Ordinary least squares
• How to compute a regression model fitting the data?- Sampling and sampling errors
• How to choose between different estimation methods?- How to estimate the parameters of an unknown population with a sample of data?- How to test parameters of an unknown population with a sample of data?- Maximum likelihood
• C: Web site of the textbook
• Bibliography
• Index.