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Replication data for: Modeling Dynamics in Time-Series-Cross-Section Political Economy Data

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Title Replication data for: Modeling Dynamics in Time-Series-Cross-Section Political Economy Data
 
Identifier https://doi.org/10.7910/DVN/27269
 
Creator Beck, Nathaniel
Katz, Jonathan N.
 
Publisher Harvard Dataverse
 
Description This article deals with a variety of dynamic issues in the analysis of time-series-cross-section (TSCS) data. Although the issues raised are general, we focus on applications to comparative political economy, which frequently uses TSCS data. We begin with a discussion of spec- ification and lay out the theoretical differences implied by the various types of dynamic models that can be estimated. It is shown that there is nothing pernicious in using a lagged dependent variable and that all dynamic models either implicitly or explicitly have such a variable; the differences between the models relate to assumptions about the speeds of adjustment of measured and unmeasured variables. When adjust- ment is quick, it is hard to differentiate between the various models; with slower speeds of adjustment, the various models make sufficiently different predictions that they can be tested against each other. As the speed of adjustment gets slower and slower, specification (and estima- tion) gets more and more tricky. We then turn to a discussion of esti- mation. It is noted that models with both a lagged dependent variable and serially correlated errors can easily be estimated; it is only ordi- nary least squares that is inconsistent in this situation. There is a brief discussion of lagged dependent variables combined with fixed effects and issues related to non-stationarity. We then show how our favored method of modeling dynamics combines nicely with methods for deal- ing with other TSCS issues, such as parameter heterogeneity and spatial dependence. We conclude with two examples.
 
Date 2011