Re: st: Two-Way FE Estimation

[Asgar Khademvatani <akhademv@ucalgary.ca>]

Dear Maarten buis,

Thank you for your answer and time. But, I got the following problem in 
running your suggestion for implementing two-way FE:

As You agreed on that the following pseudo-code is a two-way FE 
implementation:

xtreg  Y  d1 d2 d3 X,  fe
where Y is dependent variable(s) and X is independent variable(s), and 
(d1 d2 d3) are industry dummies.

I run this model and got the following error:

independent variables are collinear with the panel variable ind
r(198);

This shows that to prevent collinearity,  we do not need include 
industry dummies (d2 d2 d3) , since -xtreg- itself takes care of time 
periods and industries defined as panel id. This means, we need to run 
the above pseudo-code without industry dummies. It will be implicitly 
accounts for a two-way FE. By the way, we can not add time dummy as 
well, since T is enough large and will lose degree of freedoms.

I am wondering whether you are agree with my above discussion and 
suggestion in implementing FE model?

Regards,
Asgar

On Wed, 8/13/08, Maarten buis <maartenbuis@yahoo.co.uk> wrote:

   From: Maarten buis <maartenbuis@yahoo.co.uk>
   Subject: st: Re: Two-Way FE Estimation
   To: "stata list" <statalist@hsphsun2.harvard.edu>
   Date: Wednesday, August 13, 2008, 4:00 AM

--- Asgar Khademvatani wrote to me privately:
> You meant, if I have 4 industry in my panel data set, then a two-way
> FE can be implemented as:
>
>  xtreg Y X d1 d2 d3, fe    where d1 d2 d3 are industry dummies and
> -xtreg- take cares of time periods? If so, Do not you think this is a
> double accounting for a one-way fixed effects without taking care of
> time periods? Please advise

First of all, it is better not to respond of list. This is discussed in
section 5 of the Statalist FAQ:
http://www.stata.com/support/faqs/res/statalist.html

There are two ways of thinking about what you want: either you want to
control for industry and period, or you want to control for industry,
period, and the interaction between industry and period. Which one you
want is a subtantive choice and can only be made by the researcher.
What I proposed is the first option, and that boils down to the
pseudo-code you have given above (assuming you -xtset- on period
first). For the alternative you create a new id variable that is the
combination of period and time, and use that in xtreg. In pseudo-code:

egen id = group(period industry)
xtset id
xtreg Y X, fe

Hope this helps,
Maarten




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