Re: st: ivreg2 cannot produce first-stage result

[Mo Phil <acbooks123@gmail.com>]

Martin and Mark, many thanks for the kind explanation.

2010/4/6 Martin Weiss <martin.weiss1@gmx.de>:
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> " By the way, what's the meaning of FSRs?"
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> Abbreviation for First Stage Results?
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> HTH
> Martin
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> Dear Kit,
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> Many thanks for your kind advice.
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> I changed the command to the following and it worked.
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>  ivreg2 my_y $xfirm $year_dummies (choice_dummy = choice_sic3),   first
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> By the way, what's the meaning of FSRs?
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> The help file of ivreg2 does contain several illustrations of using my
> previous sepcificaiton of the comand:
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> For instance,
>      . ivreg2 lwage exper expersq (=age kidslt6 kidsge6), robust
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> Also, one mystery is that I used the same syntax in another project
> last night, it did work. what's the reason?
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> Once again, many thanks.
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> Phil
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> 2010/4/6 Kit Baum <baum@bc.edu>:
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>> Phil said
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>> I used the following ivreg2 to estimate an IV-regression, but could
>> not produce the first-stage result.
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>> .  ivreg2 my_y $xfirm $year_dummies choice_dummy (= choice_sic3),   first
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>> Unable to display first-stage estimates; macro e(first) is missing
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>> Unable to display summary of first-stage estimates; macro e(first) is
> missing
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>> I browsed the Statalist, found a similiar posting, but the suggested
>> answer is that if OLS is used in the second stage, there is no
>> first-stage results.
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>> But I actually used the same command syntax in another setting some
>> months ago, it worked.
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>> I would appreciated any suggestions on how to obtain the first stage
> result.
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>> The current versions of ivreg2, ivreg29 and ivreg28 from SSC all give
> these same two messages. The FSRs that
>> you're considering are the regressions of what lies on the left of the
> equals sign above on all exogenous variables.
>> As there is nothing there, there are no such regressions to be estimated.
> You are using the 'heteroskedastic OLS' (HOLS)
>> estimator, in which the excluded instruments on the right of the equals
> sign are being used to improve the efficiency
>> of the estimates in the presence of heteroskedasticity of unknown form.
> However, their presence does not change
>> the fact that there are no FSRs in this kind of model.
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>> Kit
>> coauthor ivreg2*
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>> Kit Baum   |   Boston College Economics & DIW Berlin   |
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>>   An Introduction to Modern Econometrics Using Stata  |
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