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Imputing Missing Waves for Pseudo Panels: A Generalized Scoring and Matching Method

In: Teaching Econometrics

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  • Zhongjian Lin

    (University of Georgia, John Munro Godfrey, Sr. Department of Economics)

  • Esfandiar Maasoumi

    (Emory University, Department of Economics)

Abstract

We identify statistical “matches” for missing individual observations in cross-section waves to construct or complete pseudo-panels. Unlike propensity score matching, our method is applicable even when a classifier outcome (e.g., treatment status) is not observed. In non-panel cross-sections, agents are assessed as similar relative to several observable characteristics, which are optimally aggregated. This is model-free, unlike “cohort”, “synthetic variable”, and other imputation methods. Observed covariates are employed as surrogates, not cohort averages or synthetic variables that must satisfy a given model. Our aggregate score is “information efficient”, utilizing all of the probability laws generating the observed variables. Applications include panel construction, network membership, treatment effects, and missing data. We examine private return to R&D in the presence of spillovers using macropanels, and female labor force participation using micropanel data (PSID).

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  • Zhongjian Lin & Esfandiar Maasoumi, 2026. "Imputing Missing Waves for Pseudo Panels: A Generalized Scoring and Matching Method," Advanced Studies in Theoretical and Applied Econometrics, in: Eric Hillebrand & William Griffiths (ed.), Teaching Econometrics, pages 297-317, Springer.
    • Handle: RePEc:spr:adschp:978-3-031-97942-2_17
    DOI: 10.1007/978-3-031-97942-2_17
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