Re: st: RE: RE: estimation with a time trend.

[natasha agarwal <agarwana2@googlemail.com>]

Dear everyone,

Thanks allot allot for all the input. It makes allot of sense to me
now. I am a novice and not having experienced hand on the matter I
tend to ask questions which might be quite annoying.

But am very grateful for helping me without any hesitation and patiently.

Thanks
Natasha

On Mon, Jul 5, 2010 at 5:22 PM, Maarten buis <maartenbuis@yahoo.co.uk> wrote:
> --- On Mon, 5/7/10, natasha agarwal wrote:
>> The results with the time dummies showed that the
>> estimated coefficients on the time dummies was
>> increasing over time.
>>
>> So I decided to introduce one a time variable like a trend
>> which is shown as before.
>
> OK, in your fixed effects model without interactions you
> could just as well have used your original year variable
> as it is demeaned anyhow.
>
> In general, it is good practice to make sure that the value
> 0 happens at a meaningful point in time, but you should
> not use -egen group()- for that, rather you should just
> subtract your  'midpoint' or 'reference year'.
>
> -- Maarten
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