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Re: st: Sum of fixed effect restricted to be zero


From   Maarten buis <[email protected]>
To   [email protected]
Subject   Re: st: Sum of fixed effect restricted to be zero
Date   Mon, 22 Nov 2010 13:20:17 +0000 (GMT)

--- On Mon, 22/11/10, [email protected] wrote:
> I would like to apply the model of Ethan Ligon and Laura
> Schechter (The Economic Journal, March 2003) to estimate the
> vulnerability index on a panel data of farmers.
> 
> I need to estimate a fixed effect model where the sum of
> the individual effects sum to zero. 
> 
> y[it]= a[i] + t[t]+ b[t]X[it] + u[it]
> 
> such that the sum of a[i]=0
> 
> Do you know how I could do this?

I think that is what -xtreg- does, since it reports a constant
that is representative for the average group.

Hope this helps,
Maarten 

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Maarten L. Buis
Institut fuer Soziologie
Universitaet Tuebingen
Wilhelmstrasse 36
72074 Tuebingen
Germany

http://www.maartenbuis.nl
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