st: RE: RE: copying the contents of a variable to another obervation

["Nick Cox" <n.j.cox@durham.ac.uk>]

> If you have some extra code (e.g. -child- is 1 for children
> and 0 otherwise), there is stuff like
> 
> bysort hhid (child) : gen inc_spouse = income[3 - _n]
>                                          if _n < 3 & !child
> 

bysort hhid (child) : gen inc_spouse = income[3 - _n]
                           if _n < 3 & !child & !child[2] 
 
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