Differences-in-difference estimation

[antionio]

I've searched both Eviews manuls for the panel data method, differences-in-difference estimation but i cannot find anything.
Does anyone know if it's possible to do this in Eviews at all?

[EViews Glenn]

Difference-in-differences estimates can generally be obtained using some form of dummy variables specification. You'll have to make a decision on how you want to specify the model.

A useful reference is the lectures notes by Imbens and Wooldridge...

http://www.nber.org/WNE/lect_10_diffindiffs.pdf

[MarcusD1984]

Dear Glenn,

thanks for posting the Wooldridge paper. However, I am still not sure how to implement the difference-indifference estimator in eViews.
Any advice how to do it practically? I have a binary (0,1) variable that is 1 in one year throughout a panel of 5 years with n=50 firms. Then I want to look at the firms development over time.

Thanks so much for your help,

Marcus