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-----Original Message-----
From: Jeffry Jacob [mailto:[email protected]]
Sent: Saturday, August 21, 2004 2:36 PM
To: 'Mark Schaffer'
Subject: RE: st: ivreg2 and panel group heteroscedasticity
Hi Mark,
Thanks for your response. It is very helpful indeed.
Since I have a fixed effect model, I need to mean difference the data
(using dummies results in #of parameters > # groups/clusters).
My thought of _cluster_ with _bw(1)_ was motivated by the fact that
since _abar_ test indicates no autocorrelation, cluster with robust and
bandwidth(1) might give me sigma_i's for each group where _bw(1)_ will
mean no autocorrelation. But now it is clear that _cluster_ by itself
will do all this.
I have one more related question though. If there is evidence of cross
panel correlation, E(sigma_i,sigma_j)~=0, and there is endogeneity,
xtpcse can not be used. Will ivreg2 with robust give the right standard
errors in this case?
Thanks again,
Jeffry
-----Original Message-----
From: Mark Schaffer [mailto:[email protected]]
Sent: Saturday, August 21, 2004 12:35 PM
To: [email protected]; Jeffry Jacob
Cc: Mark Schaffer
Subject: Re: st: ivreg2 and panel group heteroscedasticity
Jeffry,
Quoting Jeffry Jacob <[email protected]>:
> Hi all,
> The latest version of ivreg2 supports panel data by requiring the
> data
> to be tsset. But how does it interpret the _iis_ (individual
> identifier)
> variable?
It uses it to identify the group/cluster. No fixed effects or anything
like that.
> Suppose there is no autocorrelation but group-wise
> heteroscedasticity. Does the _robust_ option give the right
> standard
> errors or they only correct for arbitrary heteroscedasticity?
The latter.
> Will
> cluster option with _bw(1)_ do the trick?
Sort of. The -cluster- and -bw- options can't be used together. They
do
different things.
-cluster- allows for arbitrary within-group correlation (including
autocorrelation of any form). It also allows for arbitrary
heteroskedasticity, including groupwise heteroskedasticity.
-bw- allows for autocorrelation with some time structure, i.e., you
expect
the autocorrelation to die out over time. The argument to bandwith is
related to how quickly you expect it to die out. You can combine this
with -robust- to get HAC (heteroskedastic and
autocorrelation-consistent)
standard errors.
> Moreover, to use _cluster_
> , I
> have to mean difference my data ( to remove individual
> unobservables).
Strictly speaking, the answer to your question is that you can use
-cluster- without mean-differencing or otherwise transforming your data.
But it sounds like you still might want to do this anyway - it depends
on
the estimator you want to implement.
> As noted in Wooldridge (2002), Chapter 10, do I correct for the
> degrees
> of freedom in the standard errors?
Only if you do the mean-differencing or some other transformation.
Hope this helps.
Cheers,
Mark
> Any response will be much appreciated.
> Thanks,
> Jeffry
>
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