No, we cannot include age as an explanatory variable in the original model. Each person in the panel data set is exactly two years older on January 31, 1992 than on January 31, 1990. This means that ∆agei = 2 for all i. But the equation we would estimate is of the form.where 0 is the coefficient on the year dummy for 1992 in the original model. As we know, when we have an intercept in the model, we cannot include an explanatory variable that is constant across i; this violates Assumption MLR.3. Intuitively, since age changes by the same amount for everyone, we cannot distinguish the effect of age from the aggregate time effect.