st: RE: reg "partial" option equivalent to ivreg2

["Schaffer, Mark E" <M.E.Schaffer@hw.ac.uk>]

John,

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> john sanders
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> exogenous variables before estimating the full model. This is 
> especially useful when you have many non-nested fixed 
> effects. If you are not interested in the coefficients of 
> these fixed effects per se, then there is not much sense in 
> estimating them. Think of a model with worker, firm, and 
> industry*year FE for which areg could knock out workers (or 
> perhaps worker*firm), but industry*year still creates a lot 
> of extra parameters to be estimated.
> 
> The "partial" option is simply an application of the Frisch 
> Waugh Lowell theorem, but it helpfully uses a "degrees of freedom"
> correction to make the standard errors equivalent to 
> estimating the model in a single step.
> 
> Is there a user written command for a linear regression that 
> has this partial option?

Yes - it's called -ivreg2-!  -ivreg2- does simple linear regression as
well as IV regression.  The syntax is the same as that for -regress-.

Cheers,
Mark

> I guess I could pull the code out of 
> ivreg2.ado, but I thought I would ask here first.
> 
> -John Sanders
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