Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/195166 
Year of Publication: 
2019
Series/Report no.: 
Working Paper No. 321
Publisher: 
University of Zurich, Department of Economics, Zurich
Abstract: 
Regression models for proportions are frequently encountered in applied work. The conditional expectation is bound between 0 and 1 and, therefore, must be non-linear which requires non-standard panel data extensions. The quasi-maximum likelihood estimator of Papke and Wooldridge (1996) suffers from the incidental parameters problem when including fixed effects. In this paper, we re-consider the binomial panel logit model with fixed effects (Machado, 2004). We show that the conditional maximum likelihood estimator is very easy to implement using standard software. We investigate the properties of the estimator under misspecification and derive a new test for overdispersion in the binomial fixed effects logit model. Models and test are applied in a study of contracted work-time percentage, measured as proportion of full-time work, for women in Switzerland.
Subjects: 
proportions data
unobserved heterogeneity
conditional maximum likelihood
overdispersion
JEL: 
C23
J21
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Document Type: 
Working Paper

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