Hello,

I am new to this forum and new to econometrics, so I was running a fixed effects regression but I found my main independent variable of interest to be statistically insignificant using the fixed effects estimator, when I checked the within variation of that variable it was fairly small (0.06 standard deviation), could this small within variation be the cause of the variable being insignificant using FE and could it warrant the use of the random effects estimator instead ?

Any help or points in the right direction would be much appreciated. Thanks