st: Re: Help Creating a Lagged Variable

["Michael Blasnik" <michael.blasnik@verizon.net>]

This may work:

by country: gen regimeyear=year if _n==1 | regimechange==1
by country: replace regimeyear=regimeyear[_n-1] if regimeyear==.

M Blasnik

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Michael Horowitz" <horowitz@fas.harvard.edu>
To: <statalist@hsphsun2.harvard.edu>
Sent: Tuesday, September 12, 2006 2:42 PM
Subject: st: Help Creating a Lagged Variable



> To whom it may concern:
>
> I have data set up in country-year format, where there is one observation
> per country per year.  There is also a regime change variable that is a 0
> if no regime change occurred in that year and a 1 otherwise.  The dataset
> runs from 1945-2002.
>
> I am interested in creating a lagged variable for each country for each
> year that will take on the value of the start year for the dataset if
> no regime change has occurred for that country since the beginning of the
> dataset and the year of the regime change if a regime change has occurred.
<snip>

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