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st: re: AW: re: Method for first stage, in xtivreg

 From Kit Baum To statalist@hsphsun2.harvard.edu Subject st: re: AW: re: Method for first stage, in xtivreg Date Wed, 24 Feb 2010 10:59:27 -0500

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Martin offered the challenge

So Kit, can you provide the code to replicate the first stage here?

*************
webuse nlswork, clear
xtivreg ln_w age c.age#c.age not_smsa  /*
*/ 2.race (tenure = union birth south),  /*
*/ re first
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Yes, I could, but it would take more time than I have to devote to it at this moment. I can demonstrate an example of how it can be done for a balanced panel:

webuse grunfeld,clear
xtivreg invest (mvalue = kstock time), re first
scalar theta = e(theta)

foreach v of varlist mvalue kstock time {
egen v'mu = mean(v'), by(company)
g double v'star = v' - theta*v'mu
loc rl "rl' v'star"
}
reg rl'

The reason why doing the first stage 'by hand' does not work if you merely do

xtreg mvalue kstock time, re

is that you are not imposing the constraint that the \theta used in the RE-IV model is the one to be used in the first stage. We all know that IV is not really run as two stages, but as a single computation. To pick apart that single computation and get the FSR, you just need to impose the right theta.

That would be a bit of a pain in Martin's example because in the case of unbalanced panels, \theta is not constant over panels, and Stata does not report what the individual \thetas are -- only the median, min, max etc. \thetas. It could be done, of course, but as both -xtivreg- and user-written -xtivreg2- (SSC) will give you the FSRs (and -xtivreg2- will allow you to save those estimates), why would you need to 'roll your own'??

Kit Baum   |   Boston College Economics & DIW Berlin   |   http://ideas.repec.org/e/pba1.html
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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