Hello Dear Statalists,
I am currently working on my thesis, I am using command xtabond2 by Roodman and I am having trouble in the interpretation of my coefficients because the dependent variable is the logarithm of the GDP. I hope you can help me. I am new to stata so I do not know how to put my results but I present you a table I made in excel. The one I am interest in explaining is fix, that is the penetration of fix telephones measured as number of suscriptions to fix telephones per 100 persons.
I think the interpretation is: Holding everying else constant, a one percentage point increase in the ratio between the volume of debit and credit card transactions over real GDP yields a 01.3 percentage points increase in real GDP per capita growth but I am not sure.
I really hope you can help me, best regards
María Reyes Retana
I am currently working on my thesis, I am using command xtabond2 by Roodman and I am having trouble in the interpretation of my coefficients because the dependent variable is the logarithm of the GDP. I hope you can help me. I am new to stata so I do not know how to put my results but I present you a table I made in excel. The one I am interest in explaining is fix, that is the penetration of fix telephones measured as number of suscriptions to fix telephones per 100 persons.
I think the interpretation is: Holding everying else constant, a one percentage point increase in the ratio between the volume of debit and credit card transactions over real GDP yields a 01.3 percentage points increase in real GDP per capita growth but I am not sure.
| Variables | 2002-2007 | |
| Lag log Gdp | 0.4151 (0.1765)** | |
| Internet | 0.0184 (0.0152) | |
| Mobile | 0.0015 (0.0017) | |
| fix | 0.0133 (0.0055)** | |
| enrollment rate | -0.0018 (0.0069) | |
| 0.0016 (0.0004)*** | ||
| exports | -0.0043 (0.0086) | |
| labour | 0.0110 (0.0110) | |
| observations | 96 | |
| instruments | 15 | |
| states | 16 | |
| AR(1) | 0.017 | |
| AR(2) | 0.039 | |
| Hansen | 0.085 | |
María Reyes Retana

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