Many thanks Austin, and apologies for the long delay in responding.
Creating a second panel ID variable via "egen id=group(id_var
country)" effectively solves my problem, it is just what I wanted.
Thanks a lot,
f
2009/2/19 Austin Nichols <[email protected]>:
> Fiorenzo Bovenzi <[email protected]>:
> It all depends on what you have in mind as a D-in-D model. In something like
> egen id=group(id_var country)
> xtreg Yist Dist, i(id) fe
> the coef on Dist compares pre-treatment values to post-treatment
> values within firm-country pairs; firm outcomes in countries that
> never have Dist=1 contribute nothing to the estimate, but I think you
> want to use a firm's outcomes in such a country as a control for the
> same firm's outcomes in a country that does have Dist==1 at some
> point. It's not clear to me whether you want to have firm FE and
> country dummies interacted with Dist. Perhaps this would all be clear
> if you could be a bit more specific about the research design...
>
> You may just want
> xtset id_var
> xtreg Yist Dist, fe
> or
> xtset id_var
> tab country, gen(_c)
> drop _c1
> xtreg Yist Dist _c*, fe
> but you need to be clear about what comparison you are trying to draw.
>
> On Wed, Feb 18, 2009 at 8:21 AM, Fiorenzo Bovenzi
> <[email protected]> wrote:
>> Dear list,
>>
>> I am trying to estimate a difference-in-difference model with panel
>> data, i.e. Yist (where s indicates the treatment/control group) as a
>> function of a dummy Dist equal to 1 for the treatment group after the
>> treatment occurs, and 0 otherwise.
>>
>> The basic steps I follow to do this are:
>>
>> tsset id_var t_var
>>
>> xtreg Yist Dist, i(id_var) fe
>>
>> However, when I use tsset, I receive the message "repeated time values
>> in sample" because units i are called the same in both the treatment
>> and control groups - e.g. same firm in country A (treatment) and
>> country B (control).
>>
>> Is there a way to fix this, other than assigning a different id to
>> each unit in the treatment and control groups? Many thanks,
>>
>> fiorenzo
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