Hi everyone! I'm a grad student with a few years of experience with Stata. In all my courses that use Stata, I never really understood the difference between a local and global macro. From the limited knowledge I do know, local stores string or numerical values that can be later used to have a very clean do-file. And from what I understand, global does the same thing, but applies to the whole program instead of specific instances within the do file.

This is how I imagine it would be in a do-file:

global proj regress1
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local desc age educ female publications
regress citation `desc', vsquish
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export $proj-01.do
log close


Any clarification would be great!