Rose asked:
> -newey- and -nwest- are both used to estimate Newey-West standard errors in the stata.
> Why the results of them are different?
> And the results for -nwest- is different each time I run.
[...]
> . nwest reg y x, lag(1) force
[...]
> . nwest reg y x, lag(1) force
[...]
> . newey y x,lag(1) force
[...]
Why are you messing around with these commands when you should be
using Baum/Schaffer/Stillman's user-written -ivreg2- instead? Download
it from SSC. The -, bw(2) robust small- options produce correct
Newey-West standard errors.
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