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Whats Common?
Both
the fixed effects model and the multilevel model utilize clustered data. Both the fixed effects model and the multilevel model are designed to handle crosscontext heterogeneity.
Different Objectives
Fixed
effects model and multi-level model are very different research designs:
Fixed effects model controls for (or absorbs) pre-treatment heterogeneity (type I heterogeneity) Multi-level model models both forms of heterogeneity across contexts.
fixed effects model is essentially an application of the social grouping principle (with a group being a cluster) The multi-level model is essentially an application of the social context principle.
fixed effects model assumes no type II heterogeneity bias (often constant effects model), or additive effects of heterogeneity across contexts (i.e., clusters). The multi-level model relaxes homogeneity assumption at the individual level but assumes that both forms of heterogeneity are at the context level and can be modeled adequately with contextual covariates.
observed data are thin, it takes strong assumptions to yield sharp results. There is no free information in statistics. Either you collect it, or you assume it.
(Xie 1996, AJS).
More interestingly, our findings also reveal some positive consequences of the send-down experience. For instance, when compared with urban youth, a noticeably higher proportion of the send-down youth attained a college education after 1977. Partly as a result of their educational attainment, these sent-down youth, especially those with shorter rural durations, were equally likely to enter favorable employment (type of occupation and work organizations) in the urban labor force, despite their relatively short urban labor force experience. (Zhou and Hou 1999: 32)
unusual hardship faced by sent-down youth forced them to be more adaptive and thus acquire skills to survive.
analyze data from the survey of Family Life in Urban China that we conducted in three large cities (Shanghai, Wuhan, and Xian) in 1999. We use some items designed for this study.
Statistical Analyses
(1) We present the differences in six socioeconomic indicators between respondents who experienced send-down with those who did not experience send-down. (2) We present results from a fixed-effects model capitalizing on the sibling structure in our data. (3) We examine educational attainment closely as a time-varying covariate and its endogenous role in affecting early returns of sent-down youth.
Table 1: Descriptive Differences between Respondents with Send-Down Experience and Respondents without Send-Down Experience
Not
Sent down College Education (%) Years of Schooling Annual Salary (yuan) Total Annual Income (yuan) Cadre (%) SEI N 10.9 11 5,318 8,468 5.3 42.5 651 Sent Down 11.9 10.8 4,983 8,680 6.3 42 481
Sent Down
Duration <6 15.2 11.3 4,567 7,976 6.6 42.5 349
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are no differences in salary or income. Short-term sent-down youth still have higher levels of education than the other two groups (non-sent-down and long-term sent-down).
sent-down youth did not return to cities or did not return to the same cities. There can be unobserved family-level characteristics associated with both senddown and outcomes. We use a fixed effects model based on sibling pairs to address both problems.
d -0.3 0.1
Cadre (%)
SEI
8.9
43.7
5.4
44.5
3.5
-0.7
344
344
there are no effects of send-down (from the fixed effects model), why do we observe differences in education between short-term sent-down youth and long-term sent-down youth? The answer largely lies in pre-treatment differences.
Conclusion
Did
send-down experience benefit youth? -- No. Our analyses of the new data show that the send-down experience did not benefit the youth who were affected. Differences in social outcomes between those who experienced send-down and those who did not are either non-existent or spurious due to other social processes.
with nested data, assuming that patterns of relationships are homogeneous (or following a distribution) within social contexts (by time or space). dk is allowed to vary across k (k=1,K), social context, but is homogeneous within k, conditional on X.
Yik = ak + dkDik + bXik + eik ak = l+fzk+mk dk = g+szk+nk Other names: hierarchical linear models, randomcoefficient models, growth-curve models, and mixed models. Units of analysis at a lower level are nested within higherlevel units of analysis Examples:
Students within schools Observations over time within persons (growth curve)
If we ignore higher-level units of analysis => we cannot account for context (individualistic approach) If we ignore individual-level observation and rely on higher-level units of analysis, we may commit ecological fallacy (aggregated data approach) Without explicit modeling, sampling errors at second level may be large =>unreliable slopes Homoscedasticity and no serial correlation assumptions of OLS are violated (an efficiency problem). No distinction between parameter variability and sampling variability.
Advantages of MLM
Cross-level
(1)
Where Y = earnings, X1 = years of schooling, X2 = years of work experience, X4 = a dummy variable denoting membership in the Communist Party of China (1 = party member), X5 a dummy variable denoting gender (1 = female). Note two interactions.
Instead of using fixed effects for the intercept b0k, and full interactions for slope parameters, Xie and Hannum modeled these parameters in a multilevel model. Let z be a city-level covariate that measures the degree of economic reform. Let us assume that individual-level parameters depend on z in the following linear regressions:
b6 a 6
We can see that the city-level covariate z interacts with most of the individual-level predictors.
Special Cases
Special
case 1: If all the coefficients of the city-level covariate (z) are zero, we have what is called random coefficient model Special case 2: If all the coefficients of the city-level covariate (z) are zero and there are no random coefficients in all slope coefficients (except the intercept), we have what is called variance component model. [See Table 3.]
1+Pk
High
Low
Low
High
where Pk is the number of predictors at the 2nd level, and K is the number of units at the second level.
References
Xie, Yu. 1996. Review of Identification Problems in the Social Sciences by Charles Manski. American Journal of Sociology 101:1131-1133. Xie, Yu and Emily Hannum. 1996. Regional Variation in Earnings Inequality in Reform-Era Urban China. American Journal of Sociology 101:950-992. Xie, Yu, Yang Jiang, and Emily, Greenman. 2008. Did Send-Down Experience Benefit Youth? A Reevaluation of the Social Consequences of Forced Urban-Rural Migration during Chinas Cultural Revolution. Social Science Research 37: 686-700.