I am a PhD student at SOAS, London working on social
development in India. I have one doubt that maybe some
of you that have worked with developing countries data
could clear for me.
I am doing empirical analysis with Indian data and
have the following problem. I am trying to check the
influence of development expenditure on poverty. I
have yearly data for development expenditure but not
for poverty (this data is not published on yearly
basis). So what I tried to do was to put together two
time series of common years which gives me common data
for 1973, 1977, 1983, 1987, 1988, 1989, 1990, 1991,
1992, 1993 and 1994. If I want to regress this
development expenditure time series on the poverty
time series can I use the usual OLS estimation
procedure even if the intervals between the data I
have got are not the same from one time period to the
other? If not how can I do estimate the regression
coefficients?
Thanks a lot.
Ana Justino.
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