Daniel,
Just to check - by "number of instruments" I meant both included and
excluded instruments. But from your output below, it seems like you are
OK.
You could try running the estimation as below, but dropping the -cluster-
option and replacing it with -robust-, and with nothing. This would help
tie down whether the number of clusters or something else to do with the
cluster-robust approach is or isn't the problem.
--Mark
> Mark - I think i'm ok with the number of instruments and the number of
> clusters. I get the following output:
>
> Number of clusters N_clust = 497
> Number of observations N = 2393
> Number of regressors K = 239
> Number of instruments L = 244
> Number of excluded instruments L2 = 6
>
> If you have any other thoughts, or if I'm misunderstanding something,
> please let me know. Thanks. Daniel
>
> At 07:27 PM 11/16/2005 +0000, you wrote:
>>Daniel,
>>
>> > Hi - when I run xtivreg2 and include fixed effects other than those
>> > captured with the fe option, I get the following message:
>> > Error: covariance matrix of moment conditions not of full rank;
>> > overidentification statistic not reported, and standard errors and
>> model
>> > tests should be interpreted with caution and may be meaningless
>> > Possible causes: singleton dummy variable (dummy with 1 one and N-1
>> zeros
>> > or visa-versa)
>> >
>> > the output then provides none of the overid/endog tests that I am
>> > interested in. Is there any way around this problem?
>> >
>> > Specifically, I run the following model, where i.groupyr are the fixed
>> > effects. When I do not include i.groupyr, the program runs fine.
>> >
>> > xi:xtivreg2 lncirc currentsite (=pubonecurrentsites2 pubcurrentsites2
>> > pubcurrentsites2_sq pubonecurrentrivsites1 pubcurrentrivsites1
>> > pubcurrentrivsites1_sq) pgcurrentsites1 pgcirc1 i.groupyr , fe i(mag1)
>> > ffirst cluster(mag1) orthog (currentsite)
>>
>>You need to investigate the relationships between the fixed effects, your
>>extra fixed effects, and the cluster variable. For example, you have to
>>have more clusters than instruments for the cluster-robust vcv to be full
>>rank. This could be the problem if the number of groupyr fixed effects
>> is
>>big.
>>
>>Hope this helps.
>>
>>Cheers,
>>Mark
>>
>> >
>> >
>> > Thanks for any help. Daniel
>> >
>> >
>> > Daniel Simon
>> > Assistant Professor
>> > Department of Applied Economics and Management
>> > Cornell University
>> > (607) 255-1626
>> >
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>>
>>Prof. Mark Schaffer
>>Director, CERT
>>Department of Economics
>>School of Management & Languages
>>Heriot-Watt University, Edinburgh EH14 4AS
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> Daniel Simon
> Assistant Professor
> Department of Applied Economics and Management
> Cornell University
> (607) 255-1626
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Prof. Mark Schaffer
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Department of Economics
School of Management & Languages
Heriot-Watt University, Edinburgh EH14 4AS
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