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st: RE: Areg, absorb vs. xtreg, fe


From   "Jacobs, David" <[email protected]>
To   "'[email protected]'" <[email protected]>
Subject   st: RE: Areg, absorb vs. xtreg, fe
Date   Sun, 4 Mar 2012 17:21:38 +0000

I don't remember the details and my Stata manuals are at home, but I recall that you will be better off with -xtreg- standard errors.

Dave Jacobs

-----Original Message-----
From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Katherine Meckel
Sent: Saturday, March 03, 2012 7:46 PM
To: [email protected]
Subject: st: Areg, absorb vs. xtreg, fe

Hello,

I've seen in the archives that the difference between -areg, absorb- and -xtreg, fe- has been visited before, but I didn't see answer to the following:

there are several ways to obtain the OLS estimator in a fixed effects model--does anyone know which models AREG and XTREG use?  Is it least squares dummy variables (LSDV) or a mean-differenced model, e.g.?

I am also wondering, relatedly, if someone can explain why the -areg- help file says the following:
areg is designed for datasets with many groups, but not a number of groups that increases with the sample size.

The reason I ask is because there are different finite sample adjustments for standard errors in fixed effects models depending on whether you are using LSDV or mean-differencing and I don't think XTREG uses any sample adjustment in their standard errors.

Thanks very much for your help, Katherine

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