This thesis considers inference issues in serially correlated multilevel and panel data and presents a separate essay that examines the impact of 401(k) participation on wealth. The first chapter examines generalized least squares (GLS) estimation in data with a grouped structure where the...

This dissertation is a collection of three independent essays in theoretical and applied econometrics, organized in the form of three chapters. In the first two chapters, I investigate the properties of parametric and semiparametric fixed effects estimators for nonlinear panel data models. The...