Abstract

PanelWhiz was written by John P. Haisken-DeNew and Markus Hahn. PanelWhiz is a collection of Stata/SE® Add-On scripts to make using panel data sets easier. It is a MUST for empirically minded economists, sociologists, political scientists and demographers. PanelWhiz allows the user 1) to select vectors of variables at once. Matching and merging is done automatically; 2) allows items to be stored as project classes (modules). Modules can be edited, and appended; 3) allows panel retrievals be be made at a click of a button. All retrievals are self-documenting; 4) allows easy data cleaning of the selected items for time consistency with PanelWhiz "plugins"; 5) easily exports any Stata data to SAS®, SPSS®, LIMDEP®, GAUSS®, MS Excel®, R-Project®. PanelWhiz is also "charityware" as users donate directly to UNICEF per calendar year and package. In this tutorial, Prof. Haisken-DeNew will illustrate the basic functioning of PanelWhiz with hands-on applications. PanelWhiz website: http://www.panelwhiz.eu/