Jackie.
xtreg is only using the 200 observation with multiple siblings for the
majority of the results when running a fixed effect model (the exceptions
are the overall constant and the between r-squared), but by convention lists
all valid observations in the sample size. you can see this yourself by
restricting the xtreg to the sample with multiple siblings. personally, i
do not like this convention and typically include the appropriate if
statement to exclude singleton observations.
Cheers,
Steve
-----Original Message-----
From: [email protected]
[mailto:[email protected]]On Behalf Of Hui Wang
Sent: Friday, October 20, 2006 3:17 AM
To: [email protected]
Subject: st: Observation number in fixed effect regression
Hi all,
I want to run the following regression:
Y = pai0 + pai1*A+X*pai2+e
Each observation is a kid in certain households. 'A' is the variable I am
interested in; "X" is a vector of other controls. There are totally 1100
kids. Some of them are siblings in the same houshold. The number of kids who
have siblings in the dataset is about 200. If I run the following command in
stata:
xtreg Y A X , fe i(id)
where id is the houshold ID. I should expect the stata to explore the
variation within the households with multiple kids to estimate pai1. That
says, the observation number should be about 200. But in the results, stata
report that the number of observation is actually about 1100 (the whole
sample).
Why is that? Is there any way to correct this? I found that the same problem
does not happen to logit regression (xtlogit).
Thanks,
Jackie
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