st: Constant in a within transformation

["Brenkers, Randy" <Randy.Brenkers@econ.kuleuven.ac.be>]

Hello,

the stata command

xtreg ... , fe i(...);

uses a within transformation, which means that all the fe-dummy variables disappear and also a constant. In the output of this function, stata still rapports a constant coefficient. How is this calculated?


Randy Brenkers

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