Re: Matched Pairs, Treatment-Control, Interrupted Panel Study -- What Model will Work?

Posted by Maguin, Eugene on
URL: http://spssx-discussion.165.s1.nabble.com/Calculating-percent-change-using-panel-data-set-tp5713457p5713470.html

Jennie,

Your study seems to be in the political science area and I'd bet this is not the first time somebody has had a dataset like yours and has analyzed for policy shock effects. Step 1: find and read those articles.

Now, to give us something to work with state a specific hypothesis/variable that will show the effect and indicate whether you expect the effect to be a transient or a 'permanent' change in level.

Gene Maguin



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From: SPSSX(r) Discussion [mailto:[hidden email]] On Behalf Of Jenny Day
Sent: Friday, June 01, 2012 3:40 AM
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Subject: Matched Pairs, Treatment-Control, Interrupted Panel Study -- What Model will Work?

Hi Out There!

I have a beautiful balanced panel dataset from 1998 to 2011, of election results (incumbents re-elected, party turnover, voter turnout, etc.) for municipalities in the USA, with no missing values.  I have matched 25 treatment cities to 25 control cities. All of the treatment cities experienced a certain policy shock at different times between 2007 and 2011; the control cities are similar in demographic composition and region, but did not experience the shock.  I also have relevant control variables from the Census data.

In summary, I have a setup for a matched-pairs, treatment-control, interrupted panel study.  I want to use a panel method to estimate the effect of that shock.  I am writing to this list because I am not sure what statistical method is suitable for this type of study.

Does anyone have any suggestions?

Thanks!!
Jennie

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