Published online by Cambridge University Press: 17 August 2016
This paper presents an extension of Chamberlain's approach to modelling correlated random effects in a dichotomous model estimated on panel data. The extension consists in relaxing the arbitrary normality assumption made on all error terms and on specifying instead a SNP distribution for the composite error term resulting in each wave from Chamberlain's treatment of correlated random effects. An application to a panel of 1325 German firms illustrates the feasibility of the approach.
Cet article présente une extension de l'approche de Chamberlain de la modélisation des chocs aléatoires corrélés dans un modèle à variables binaires estimé sur données d'échantillon. L'extension consiste en l'abandon de l'hypothèse arbitraire de normalité des résidus et le remplacement de celle-ci par une distribution SNP sur les résidus composites résultant du traitement à la Chamberlain des chocs aléatoires corrélés. Une application à un échantillon de 1325 firmes allemandes illustre la faisabilité d'une telle approche.
Support from the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft is gratefully acknowledged. We also wish to thank our colleagues in Mannheim, as well as three anonymous referees, for helpful comments.
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