Re: st: Help Creating a Lagged Variable - REVISED

["Michael Blasnik" <michael.blasnik@verizon.net>]

How about subtraction?

gen yearselapsed=year-regimechangeyear

M Blasnik

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Michael Horowitz" <horowitz@fas.harvard.edu>
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Sent: Tuesday, September 12, 2006 4:30 PM
Subject: Re: st: Help Creating a Lagged Variable - REVISED



> Thanks for the suggestions -- I got the variable set up perfectly.
>
> One more question.  So now I have my "change" variable.  I would like to 
> generate a new variable that counts the number of years since the last 
> regime change.  How would I do that?
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