RE: st: ivreg2 with 1 lag ac correction, robust SE and cluster

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

Caspar,

Can you recast your setup as a panel?  If you define a panel identifier that is =1 when the dep var is A and =2 when the dep var is B, you can -xtset- or -tsset- the data.

--Mark

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> Caspar Bijleveld
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> Subject: FW: st: ivreg2 with 1 lag ac correction, robust SE 
> and cluster
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> 
> 
> 
> Dear Statalisters,
> 
> In my research I have used ivreg2 as a substitute for a 
> newey-west regression in order to get the r^2 for each model. 
> This worked perfectly fine.
> 
> Now I have a question about running a regression with ivreg2 
> including lags for autocorrelation, setting it to robust to 
> correct for heteroskedasticity and I need to cluster my data.
> This is the case. I have quarterly observations of two 
> dependent variables, say A and B, and I have put these two 
> variables underneath each other so it becomes one variable. I 
> want to regress both variables on certain macro variables 
> which are also quarterly. Next I want to find out whether 
> variable A is being influenced more by a certain macro 
> variable than variable B. This I want to test with a 
> regression including dummies (dummy=1 when observation is for 
> variable A). The coefficient of the dummy variable will tell 
> me if there is significant difference in influence. 
> Since I have quarterly observations I want to correct for 
> autocorrelation of one lag, so I include bw(2) behind my 
> regression. I also want to correct for any heteroskedasticity 
> so I include robust small (small because I have 80 quarterly 
> observations). Now the problem is arising. I have two 
> observations per quarter, one for variable A and one for 
> variable B. I also have two observations per quarter for the 
> macro variables, but these are the same for each specific 
> quarter (therefore clustering is necessary). My time1 
> variable shows 1,1,2,2,3,3,...,79,79,80,80 -> so 160 
> observations (each observation two times). When I want to 
> tsset time1 it gives the error "repeated time values in 
> sample". So time1 is not possible to set as times series. If 
> I generate a new variable (say "count") and give every 
> observation a specific number from 1 till 160 and tsset this 
> new variable "count" I am not able to cluster it anymore 
> because there is no distinction between an observation for 
> variable A or variable B. I have also tried to set "count" as 
> tsset and cluster "time1" but this gives the error " cluster 
> kernel-robust requires clustering on tsset time variable.     
>   tsset time var=count; cluster var=time1 ". 
> 
> Does anyone have an idea or suggestion how to cope with this problem? 
> Many thanks.
> Caspar Bijleveld
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