Separating different individual effects in a panel data model
Summary In this paper we consider a panel data model with individual effects that are arbitrarily correlated with the explanatory variables. The effects are composed as the sum of two different interpretable components, such as inefficiency versus heterogeneity in a production frontier setting, or ability versus socioeconomic background in an earnings function, or genetics versus environment in an epidemiological analysis. We wish to predict the two components separately.…