Dear All,
I need to test if the concentration index (CI) for a sample of
geo-units has changed over time trough a bootstrap procedure. I have
the employment value for the
same geo-units in two different points in time, I want to test if the
CI in t1 is equal to the CI in t2 (as done in Brulhart+Traeger 2005).
To compute the index, I have used the "ineqdeco" routine separately
on the Employment variable for t1 and then on the one for t2.
However, I do not know how to implement the bootstrap test. Because, I
cannot write the command:
bootstrap diff=(r(ge1)"t1"-r(ge1)"t2"), reps(#): ineqdeco emp, by(id)
since ineqdeco computes only one CI, the one for the variable
listed and I cannot indicate the two different periods.
I guess that this is similar to the case when one wants to test if
the sample mean changes over time through a bootstrap test. Indeed,
sum "var", generates only one value even if one would like to
differentiate between two clusters of "var".
Can anyone provide me with suggestions?
Thanks, Gianluca Cafiso.
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