Thanks,
in hindsight that seems obvious.
Though, an interesting aspect is:
As soon as I apply a 3-level-model (with n=43 at the second level) to
the data, the random effects model beats the ols (first-level) dummies
model.
Marcelo
> In your case the dummy model uses 8 parameters to capture the group
> effects, while the random effects model only uses 1 parameter to
> capture the group effect. So, it is no surprise that the dummy
> model fits better.
>
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