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RE: st: R2-within(xtreg,fe) and R2_adj(areg)?


From   "Scott Merryman" <[email protected]>
To   <[email protected]>
Subject   RE: st: R2-within(xtreg,fe) and R2_adj(areg)?
Date   Fri, 11 Jun 2004 16:28:51 -0500

I suspect the reason is that you are using "region" (with 11 groups) in the
-areg- model, but you are using "pano" (with 304 groups) in the -xtreg-
model. 

Scott


-----Original Message-----
From: [email protected]
[mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Clive Nicholas
Sent: Friday, June 11, 2004 4:03 PM
To: [email protected]
Subject: Re: st: R2-within(xtreg,fe) and R2_adj(areg)?

Mark Schaffer wrote:

> The R2s depend on the coefficient estimates but not on the estimated
> variance-covariance matrix.  It looks like you are using xtreg,fe and areg
> to estimate the same model, and so the coefficients reported by the two
> estimators should be the same.  If they are, then you can simply use the
> R2s reported by xtreg,fe.

Whilst I was perfecting my LSDV models, I assumed (both from Mark's and
Kit Baum's comments) that the coefficients from them would indeed be the
same as FE. Not from my data. An example:

. areg edconch lagconch laglabch lagldmch if edmarker==1, absorb(region)

                                                       Number of obs =   
2187
                                                       F(  3,  2173) =  
89.91
                                                       Prob > F      = 
0.0000
                                                       R-squared     = 
0.1379
                                                       Adj R-squared = 
0.1328
                                                       Root MSE      = 
10.752

----------------------------------------------------------------------------
--
     edconch |      Coef.   Std. Err.      t    P>|t|     [95% Conf.
Interval]
-------------+--------------------------------------------------------------
--
    lagconch |  -1.145137   .1207652    -9.48   0.000    -1.381964  
-.9083096
    laglabch |  -.7120315   .1372847    -5.19   0.000    -.9812545  
-.4428084
    lagldmch |  -.8160474   .1272037    -6.42   0.000    -1.065501  
-.5665938
       _cons |  -12.85246   .2432762   -52.83   0.000    -13.32953  
-12.37538
-------------+--------------------------------------------------------------
--
      region |       F(10, 2173) =      7.705   0.000          (11
categories)

. xtreg edconch lagconch laglabch lagldmch region if edmarker==1, fe

Fixed-effects (within) regression               Number of obs      =     
2187
Group variable (i): pano                        Number of groups   =      
304

R-sq:  within  = 0.1970                         Obs per group: min =      
  1
       between = 0.0000                                        avg =      
7.2
       overall = 0.1049                                        max =      
 11

                                                F(3,1880)          =   
153.72
corr(u_i, Xb)  = -0.0409                        Prob > F           =   
0.0000

----------------------------------------------------------------------------
--
     edconch |      Coef.   Std. Err.      t    P>|t|     [95% Conf.
Interval]
-------------+--------------------------------------------------------------
--
    lagconch |  -1.351399   .1029873   -13.12   0.000    -1.553381  
-1.149418
    laglabch |  -.9368757   .1180488    -7.94   0.000    -1.168396  
-.7053552
    lagldmch |  -1.048965   .1090272    -9.62   0.000    -1.262792  
-.8351383
      region |  (dropped)
       _cons |  -12.95549   .1934802   -66.96   0.000    -13.33495  
-12.57603
-------------+--------------------------------------------------------------
--
     sigma_u |  8.0146543
     sigma_e |  8.4675555
         rho |  .47254255   (fraction of variance due to u_i)
----------------------------------------------------------------------------
--
F test that all u_i=0:     F(303, 1880) =     5.76           Prob > F =
0.0000

Exactly the same results occur if I use individual dummy variables in
-xtreg, fe-.

As they might say in the UK's "Private Eye" magazine, is any difference
between them a coincidence? I think we should be told.

CLIVE NICHOLAS        |t: 0(044)191 222 5969
Politics              |e: [email protected]
Newcastle University  |http://www.ncl.ac.uk/geps

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