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Re: st: Controlling for variables


From   Don Ruby <[email protected]>
To   [email protected]
Subject   Re: st: Controlling for variables
Date   Mon, 25 Oct 2010 19:36:18 -0400

Say you are regressing log(wages) on age and education. Assume that
your wage variable is entitled "wage". You would type the following:

gen logwage=log(wage)

xi: reg logwage age educ

If you want Stata to compute standard errors that are robust to
heteroskedasticity:

xi: reg logwage age educ, robust

I'm assuming that your variable of interest is education, so any other
"control" variables can be listed alongside your variable of interest.

Cheers,

DON

On Mon, Oct 25, 2010 at 5:14 PM, dpbowes <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hi! I am somewhat new to Stata and trying to figure out how to control for
> variables in a regression (age, education)  I know all I am doing is
> holding them constant but for a large data set what entries do I need to
> control for those variables.  Thanks for your help!
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