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Unbalanced panel data: A survey

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This paper surveys the econometrics literature on unbalanced panels. This includes panels with randomly and non-randomly missing observations. In addition, we survey panels with special features including pseudo panels, rotating panels and censored panels.

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  1. Department of Economics and Center for Policy Research, Syracuse University, 13244-1020, Syracuse, New York, USA

    Badi H. Baltagi

  2. Department of Statistics, Korea University, Sungbuk-Ku, 136-701, Seoul, Korea

    Seuck Heun Song

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This work was supported by Korea Science and Engineering Foundation grant (R14-2003-002-01000). We would like to thank the editor Götz Trenkler and two anonymous referees for their helpful comments and suggestions.

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Baltagi, B.H., Song, S.H. Unbalanced panel data: A survey. Statistical Papers 47, 493–523 (2006). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00362-006-0304-0

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