Stata Panel Data Review

To check balance explicitly:

Not including year dummies can make your FE model pick up economy-wide trends and claim them as treatment effects. Solution: Always include i.year or use xtreg, fe with time dummies. stata panel data

Allows for arbitrary correlation within entities. To check balance explicitly: Not including year dummies

Fixed Effects (preferred due to ability bias) xtreg wage union experience i.year, fe robust stata panel data

Visualization:

Success in Stata panel data analysis is 80% data preparation.