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Re: st: RE: Drop in R-squared when adding variables in xtreg
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"Gaetano Dadamo" <[email protected]>
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Re: st: RE: Drop in R-squared when adding variables in xtreg
Date
Mon, 22 Apr 2013 20:06:21 +0200
The one that I was talking about is the overall R-squared.
I noticed that the within R-squared increased while the between R-squared falls, and that was puzzling me (and definitely driving the result of the overall R-squared)
Il giorno Lunedi, 22 Aprile, 2013 19:15 CEST, "Jacobs, David" <[email protected]> ha scritto:
> The R Squared that matters in a fixed effects analysis is the within one. Are you telling us about another?
>
> Dave Jacobs
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> Subject: st: Drop in R-squared when adding variables in xtreg
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> Dear statalisters,
>
> I’ve been performing a FE regression with Stata and I have puzzling results: for example, I run the model
>
> xtreg y y1 x year_dummies, fe cluster(country)
>
> where y1 is the first lag of y, and get an overall R-squared of 0.71. Then, I want to see the effect of institutional variable z on the coefficient of y1 and z, so I run the regression
>
> xtreg y y1 x z*y1 z*x year_dummies, fe cluster(country)
>
> but my overall R-squared falls to 0.21. I have the same number of observation in both samples. It is the between R-squared that falls a lot.
>
> Why is that? Shouldn’t the explicative power of the regression not fall when adding variables anyways?
>
> I have that results with two different institutional variables: one is Union Density which is quite variable across and within units, so it definitely cannot be a problem of multicollinearity; the other one is a dummy for New Member States of EU which is constant within countries (but, since it is interacted, does not drop out of the system). Here R-squared falls from 0.71 to 0.06.
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> Is there a problem with the estimation? More generally: is the (overall) R-squared the best way for looking at the goodness of fit here?
>
> Thank you so much.
>
> Gaetano
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