Research Staff

Martin Weidner

cemmap and UCL

Martin joined UCL and the Centre for Microdata Methods and Practice in 2011 after finishing his PhD at the University of Southern California. He is also a Research Fellow at the Institute for Fiscal Studies and a Turing Fellow at the Alan Turing Institute. He is working on Econometrics, with a special focus on panel data models, social networks, factor models, and high-dimensional inference

Selected Publications

Robust estimation and inference in panels with interactive fixed effects

We consider estimation and inference for a regression coefficient in panels with interactive fixed effects (i.e., […]

Timothy B. Armstrong, Martin Weidner, Andrei Zeleneev
7 July 2023 | CWP14/23
Moment conditions for dynamic panel logit models with fixed effects

This paper investigates the construction of moment conditions in discrete choice panel data with individual specific […]

Bo E. Honoré, Martin Weidner
1 December 2022 | CWP22/22

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Moment Conditions for Dynamic Panel Logit Models with Fixed Effects
Bo E. Honoré, Martin Weidner
9 July 2020 | CWP38/20
Dynamic ordered panel logit models

We study a dynamic ordered logit model for panel data with fixed effects. We establish the […]

Bo E. Honoré, Chris Muris, Martin Weidner
28 December 2021 | CWP44/21
Bounding treatment effects by pooling limited information across observations

We provide novel bounds on average treatment effects (on the treated) that are valid under an […]

Sokbae (Simon) Lee, Martin Weidner
13 December 2021 | CWP43/21
Inference on a distribution from noisy draws

We consider a situation where the distribution of a random variable is being estimated by the […]

Koen Jochmans, Martin Weidner
7 December 2021 | CWP42/21

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Inference on a distribution from noisy draws
Koen Jochmans, Martin Weidner
13 September 2019 | CWP44/19
Linear panel regressions with two-way unobserved heterogeneity

This paper studies linear panel regression models in which the unobserved error term is an unknown […]

Hugo Freeman, Martin Weidner
4 November 2021 | CWP39/21
Posterior average effects

Economists are often interested in estimating averages with respect to distributions of unobservables, such as moments […]

Stéphane Bonhomme, Martin Weidner
10 September 2021 | CWP36/21

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Posterior average effects
Stéphane Bonhomme, Martin Weidner
9 October 2020 | CWP49/20
Bias and consistency in three-way gravity models

We study the incidental parameter problem for the “three-way” Poisson Pseudo-Maximum Likelihood (PPML) estimator recently recommended […]

Martin Weidner, Thomas Zylkin
8 March 2021 | CWP11/21

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Bias and Consistency in Three-way Gravity Models
Martin Weidner, Thomas Zylkin
7 January 2020 | CWP1/20
Low-rank approximations of nonseparable panel models

We provide estimation methods for nonseparable panel models based on low-rank factor structure approximations. The factor […]

Ivan Fernandez-Val, Hugo Freeman, Martin Weidner
4 March 2021 | CWP10/21

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Low-rank approximations of nonseparable panel models
Ivan Fernandez-Val, Hugo Freeman, Martin Weidner
23 October 2020 | CWP52/20
Low-rank approximations of nonseparable panel models

We provide estimation methods for panel nonseparable models based on low-rank factor structure approximations. The factor […]

Ivan Fernandez-Val, Hugo Freeman, Martin Weidner
23 October 2020 | CWP52/20