Yes, that's probably it. I don't have the same number of years for each
country. For some countries I only have 8, and for some countries I
have as many as 17. I should have thought of that. Thanks again. -R
>>> [email protected] 09/15/05 5:41 PM >>>
how many years do you have?
On 9/15/05, Rachel Bouvier <[email protected]> wrote:
> >>> [email protected] 09/14/05 7:55 PM >>>
> it would actually help if you could sent your commands to the list
so
> that we see what's going on,
> best
> robert
>
> Of course. Thank you for your time.
>
> My first model is regressing the log of GDP on the year (ie, 1996)
and
> the square of the year (ie, 3984016). Originally, I ran this model
> separately for 30 countries. I then obtained the predicted value of
the
> log of GDP for each of those countries (by using -predict-) and used
it
> in a second model.
>
> The suggestion was to interact year and year squared with each of
the
> countries in the dataset so that I could put them all in one
regression,
> using the country dummies and the -noconst- option. Seems sensible,
but
> when I tried it, Stata dropped all the country dummies. Here was my
> code (I know there are more parsimonious ways to do this, but...):
>
> *All the countries are given an index from 1 to 30.*
> gen mol =1 if index== 1
> replace mol =0 if index~= 1
> gen arm =1 if index== 2
> replace arm =0 if index~= 2
>
> etc. This generated dummies with 1 if the observation belonged to
that
> country (Moldova is #1, for example).
>
> Then, I interacted the dummies with both year and year squared:
>
> gen yrmol=year*mol
> gen yr2mol=yearsq*mol
> gen yrarm=year*arm
> gen yr2arm=yearsq*arm
>
> etc.
>
> Finally, I ran a regression that looks like:
>
> regress lngdp yrmol yr2mol yrarm yr2arm ... mol arm ... , nocons
>
> where mol = Moldavia, arm = Armenia, and so on.
>
> When I run this, I get the following (truncated):
>
> lnpppc1 | Coef. Std. Err. t P>|t| [95% Conf.
> Interval]
> mol | (dropped)
> arm | (dropped)
> yrmol | .2019759 1.003532 0.20 0.841 -1.772746
> 2.176698
> yr2mol | -.0001006 .0005037 -0.20 0.842 -.0010917
> .0008904
> yrarm | .149713 .4002733 0.37 0.709 -.6379338
> .9373598
> yr2arm | -.0000744 .0002011 -0.37 0.712 -.0004702
> .0003214
>
> However, when I run the following:
>
> regress lngdp year yearsq if index ==1
>
> for example, I do get results. That is what I did in order to get
the
> predicted variables for the second stage.
>
> Anything jump out at you? Again, thank you for your time and
patience.
> -Rachel
>
> >>> [email protected] 09/14/05 7:55 PM >>>
> it would actually help if you could sent your commands to the list
so
> that we see what's going on,
> best
> robert
>
> On 9/14/05, Rachel Bouvier <[email protected]> wrote:
> > Hi again. I tried interacting my xs with country specific dummies
> and
> > running them in a single equation as suggested. Stata is dropping
> the
> > country dummies, even though I specify the nocons option. (I
> remember
> > now that this was why I had originally run it in 30 different
> equations
> > - it works fine that way, but not if I put them all into one
> equation.)
> > Am I doing something wrong? It could be because xsq is the
square
> of
> > x, but I don't understand why stata would let me do it for an
> individual
> > country but not together. Sorry for being obtuse. -Rachel
> >
> > >>> [email protected] 09/13/05 4:50 PM >>>
> > a possible solution could be to run in a single model the
equation
> >
> > (1) y = b1 x + b2 xsq
> >
> > interacting your x's with country specific dummies.
> >
> > In other words, you could run a fully interactive model which is
> > equivalent to running 30 different regressions but in a single
> > equation. (make sure you include the country specific dummies too
> that
> > would account for the constant in your separate regressions and
> > specify the nocons option).
> >
> > hope this helps.
> > robert
> >
> >
> > On 9/13/05, Rachel Bouvier <[email protected]> wrote:
> > > Dear statalisters *
> > >
> > > I am confronting a problem much like that described by James
> Hardin
> > in volume 2, issue 3 of the Stata Journal, "The robust variance
> > estimator for two-stage models," where he gave an illustration of
> Stata
> > code to construct the Murphy-Topel variance estimator.
> > >
> > > I am using a variable (call it yhat), predicted in a first
(series
> > of) equations, as a regressor in my second equation.
> > >
> > > In other words, my first (series of) regressions looked like
this:
> > > (1) y = b1 x + b2 xsq
> > >
> > > Then, I predicted yhat from that regression, and used that in a
> > second regression:
> > > (2) z = b1 yhat + b2 x2 + b2 x3*
> > >
> > > I say "series of" regressions because I have a panel of 30
> countries.
> > Rather than run one panel data regression and predict each
> country's
> > yhat from that, I ran each country as a separate regression, not
> wanting
> > to assume that they could be pooled. In other words, I ran
equation
> (1)
> > 30 different times, for each country in the dataset. (It seemed
to
> make
> > sense at the time, to both me and my committee!)
> > >
> > > Therein lies my problem. I would like to adjust the standard
> errors
> > for the fact that I predicted yhat, but as I ran a different
> regression
> > for each country, the solution is not as easy as constructing the
> > Murphy-Topel estimator. Does anyone have any suggestions? Any
help
> > would be much appreciated, before I dive into something that is
> > undoubtedly over my head. Thanks.
>
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