st: RE: FE over two columns

[tazz_ben <tazz_ben@wsu.edu>]

Hi Christopher,

If you are running time series panel data what you said makes a lot of
sense.  But in my case, I'm running a model that occurs in a single year.
You might say that's dumb (and I actually don't disagree), but it is a
homework assignment (not my own research) I don't get to change the model.
 So, if I were to apply fixed effects in the way you are describing to my
data, each row would have its own fixed effect; which obviously isn't what
I want.

So, what I'm wanting to do is not combine the two columns as you described
with Group, but in fact there should be two 1 valued fixed effects on each
row.  So, to your example, for UK->US trade data row, there should be the
US Fixed Effect, and UK Fixed Effect.  For the US->Mexico trade data row,
it should have 1 values for the US Fixed Effect and Mexico Fixed Effect.

Ben


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This is probably a stupid question that can easily be done within Stata.
So I have a gravity model with two columns containing the country names
(obviously). I want to apply country fixed effects: which means the index
of the FE model is over two columns (ie. a country specific dummy should
be set to one regardless of whether it appears in column one or column
two).

I only have about 50 countries, so I can easily do this manually with
excel then push it into stata; but I thought I should learn how to do this
if Stata can do it internally.


If the two columns are labeled exporter and importer (as is usual in
analyzing trade data)
you can't specify country fixed effects based on a country being either an
X or an M, as the
dummies would not be mutually exclusive (e.g. both US->UK and UK->US
contain each of those
countries). Usually with this sort of data you create fixed effects for
all combinations, e.g.

egen exorem = group(exporter importer)
tsset exorem year (or whatever is your time unit)

exorem will take on different values for each trade linkage.

Kit


Kit Baum | Boston College Economics & DIW Berlin |
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An Introduction to Stata Programming |
http://www.stata-press.com/books/isp.html
An Introduction to Modern Econometrics Using Stata |
http://www.stata-press.com/books/imeus.html


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