Re: st: Different results from interaction term and Suest Command

[natasha agarwal <agarwana2@googlemail.com>]

Hello everyone,

I think am communicating the problem wrongly.

First Method with the interaction term:

xtreg lnrval lnk lnw lnvfdi fdev1 y14-y18, fe vce(robust)

where fdev1=lnvfdi*dev1 where dev1=1 if region higher developed and
zero otherwise. In this
method fdev1 (which is the difference between the two groups is not
statistically significant)

Second Method with sample splitting

bysort number: center lnrval lnk lnw lnvfdi y14-y18, casewise
regress c_lnrval c_lnk c_lnw c_lnvfdi c_y14-c_y18 if fdev1==1
est sto fe2
reg c_lnrval c_lnk c_lnw c_lnvfdi c_y14-c_y18 if fdev1==0
est sto fe3
suest fe2 fe3, vce(cluster number)
est sto fe4
test [fe2_mean]c_lnvfdi==[fe3_mean]c_lnvfdi (the slopes are
significantly different

Can anyone please help me with this?

Thanks
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