panel2cs2: Panel Data to Repeated Cross Sections

In bcallaway11/BMisc: Miscellaneous Functions for Panel Data, Quantiles, and Printing Results

Panel Data to Repeated Cross Sections

Description

panel2cs2 takes a 2 period dataset and turns it into a cross sectional dataset; i.e., long to wide. This function considers a particular case where there is some outcome whose value can change over time. It returns the dataset from the first period with the outcome in the second period and the change in outcomes over time appended to it

Usage

panel2cs2(data, yname, idname, tname, balance_panel = TRUE)

Arguments

data	data.frame used in function
yname	name of outcome variable that can change over time
idname	unique id
tname	time period name
balance_panel	whether to ensure that panel is balanced. Default is TRUE, but code runs somewhat faster if this is set to be FALSE.

Value

data from first period with .y0 (outcome in first period), .y1 (outcome in second period), and .dy (change in outcomes over time) appended to it

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