Re: st: Re: RE: controlling what variables to dropping?

[Scott Cunningham <scunning@gmail.com>]

Andrea,

I misunderstood your post.  I thought you were asking about fixed  
effects, not cross-section.  Stata is dropping because of the dummy  
variable trap, so ignore my recommendation.  I don't know how to  
prioritize which dummies Stata will drop, offhand.  One longway  
solution might be vary the order of your regressors.  That might  
cause Stata to drop certain dummies differently, but I'm not sure.   
So, for instance, if there are two dummies (d1 and d2), you might try

. reg y d1 d2
. reg y d2 d1

But that's just a guess.

sc
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