A convenient method for the estimation of the multinomial logit model with fixed effects

D’Haultfœuille, Xavier and Alessandro Iaria
Authors registered in the RePEc Author Service: Xavier D'Haultfoeuille

Economics Letters, 2016, vol. 141, issue C, 77-79

Abstract: The conditional maximum likelihood estimator of the fixed-effect logit model suffers from a curse of dimensionality that may have severely limited its use in practice. As the number of alternatives and the number of choice situations per individual increase, the number of addends in the denominator of the fixed-effect logit formula grows exponentially. We propose to by-pass this curse of dimensionality by exploiting a classic result by McFadden (1978) and to consistently estimate the fixed-effect logit model on random samples of permutations of the observed choice sequences.

Keywords: Sampling of alternatives; Restricted choice sets; Multinomial fixed effect logit; Conditional logit; Panel data logit (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2016
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DOI: 10.1016/j.econlet.2016.02.002

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