st: RE: xtreg, fe - xtivreg2, fe and panel units non nested within clusters

["Schaffer, Mark E" <M.E.Schaffer@hw.ac.uk>]

Agnese,

The issue has to do with what dof adjustment to use when panels are not
nested within clusters.  Here is a Statalist posting which you might
find helpful:

http://www.stata.com/statalist/archive/2009-03/msg00353.html

HTH,
Mark

> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-statalist@hsphsun2.harvard.edu 
> [mailto:owner-statalist@hsphsun2.harvard.edu] On Behalf Of 
> Agnese Romiti
> Sent: 10 August 2011 12:05
> To: statalist@hsphsun2.harvard.edu
> Subject: st: xtreg, fe - xtivreg2, fe and panel units non 
> nested within clusters
> 
> Dear statalisters,
> 
> I need to run xtreg, fe and xtivreg2, fe with a cluster 
> variable which changes within the panel identifier.
> I get two errors messages:  when I run xtreg , fe I get the 
> following error message
> 
> ''panels are not nested within clusters''
> 
> Whereas when I run xtivreg2, fe  the error message is the following
> 
> ''cluster option not supported if a panel spans more than one 
> cluster''
> 
> I tried to perfom manually the within tranformation and then 
> I run the commands reg and ivreg on the pooled tranformed 
> sample. In such a  way the program allows me to use the 
> cluster robust SE even though the panel variable is not 
> nested in the same cluster.
> Is this procedure correct or is there any better alternative 
> to fix this problem due to the cluster option?
> 
> Before following this route I checked whether my pooled OLS 
> regression on the transformed data ( without using any 
> cluster option) provides identical results to the case of 
> running xtreg, fe. But unfortunately this is not the case: 
> the results I obtained by the manual transformations are not 
> identical to the ones obtained by using xtreg, fe as I would 
> have expected.
> This is the code I've used in order to trasform the data
> 
> foreach num of varlist var1 var2 {
> bys id: egen mean_`num'=mean(`num')
> gen `num'_t=`num'-mean_`num'
> drop mean_`num'
> }
> 
> I was wondering whether this problem has to do with the way 
> xtreg, fe is implemented in Stata.
> 
> Many thanks
> 
> Agnese
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