Approximating grouped fixed effects estimation via fuzzy clustering regression
通过模糊聚类回归近似分组固定效应估计
Summary We propose a new, computationally efficient way to approximate the “grouped fixed effects” (GFE) estimator of Bonhomme and Manresa (2015), which estimates grouped patterns of unobserved heterogeneity. To do so, we generalize the fuzzy C‐means objective to regression settings. As the clustering exponent approaches 1, the fuzzy clustering objective converges to the GFE objective, which we recast as a standard generalized method of moments problem. We replicate the…