Friday, June 28, 2019

xtqreg and reghdfe

Hello,

My question can be summarized as... why does xtqreg and reghdfe produce similar results when my data set has large outliers on both ends?

When I just use 'reghdfe' with firm and year fixed effects, due to large outliers, the estimated coefficients do not make sense at all; they are way too big. Thus, I decided to estimate with a quantile regression with fixed effects so that the estimates are less sensitive to large outliers.

I understand that qregpd and xtqreg estimate very different models, thus, they should produce different estimates. When I use qregpd, the scale of estimates is sensible. However, when I use xtqreg, the scale of estimates looks very similar to ones produced by reghdfe. I am little bit confused because median and mean of my data set are very different, so I expected xtqreg to produce different results from reghdfe. Could anyone help me understand why this might be happening?

Thank you so much in advance!

Sincerely,
Soyoung

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