Notice: On April 23, 2014, Statalist moved from an email list to a forum, based at statalist.org.
[Date Prev][Date Next][Thread Prev][Thread Next][Date Index][Thread Index]
st: xtabond2 with averaged variables in order to keep T small
From 
 
Caterina Astarita <[email protected]> 
To 
 
[email protected] 
Subject 
 
st: xtabond2 with averaged variables in order to keep T small 
Date 
 
Tue, 21 Sep 2010 10:35:59 +0100 (BST) 
Dear Statalisters, 
I have a panel dataset with N = 19 and T = 14 
my independent variable are 7 plus the time dummies. 
Since I'm running a GMM system one step estimator with xtabond2, 
even using collapse and taking only the most recent lags I have problems 
with proliferation of instruments. I have tried to make averages of three year each 
for all the variable, thus reducing the period from 14 to 5 and now results 
are really better also in terms of diagnostic. 
Is that a plausible procedure? 
Thank you 
Caterina 
*
*   For searches and help try:
*   http://www.stata.com/help.cgi?search
*   http://www.stata.com/support/statalist/faq
*   http://www.ats.ucla.edu/stat/stata/