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A Selection Model for Panel Data: The Prospects of Green Party Support

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  04 January 2017

Martin Spiess  and
Martin Kroh
Martin Spiess*
Affiliation:
Department of Psychology, University of Hamburg, Von-Melle-Park 5, 20146 Hamburg, Germany
Martin Kroh
Affiliation:
Socio-Economic Panel Study, German Institute for Economic Research (DIW Berlin), Mohrenstrasse 58, 10117 Berlin, Germany. e-mail: mkroh@diw.de
*
e-mail: martin.spiess@uni-hamburg.de (corresponding author)
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Abstract

Although sample selection bias is a frequent problem of applied research, there has been no generalization of sample selection models with binary dependent variables of interest to data with temporal error correlations. We suggest a generalized estimating equation approach to panel data selection models, considering binary responses in both equations. We demonstrate the utility of this model by a simulation study and by analyzing highly unbalanced annual panel data taken from the German Socio-Economic Panel Study covering two decades of Green party support.

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Political Analysis , Volume 18 , Issue 2 , Spring 2010 , pp. 172 - 188
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Copyright © The Author 2010. Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of the Society for Political Methodology 

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