How to use esttab to display the independent variables under other name?

[Phuc Nguyen]

I have a multi regressions as below and using esttab at the end to produce a publication-style report

reghdfe y x1 , a(firm year)
est sto m1


reghdfe y x1 x2 x3 , a(firm year)
est sto m2

reghdfe y x1 x2 x3 x4 , a(firm year)
est sto m3

esttab m1 m2 m3 m4 m5 using "directory\report.csv",star(* 0.1 ** 0.05 *** 0.01) ar2  title(" **y** ") mtitle("1" "2" "3" ) keep(x1 x2 x3 x4)

So, it will display the x1, x2 ,x3, x4 in the result table

However, instead of displaying x1, x2,x3, x4, I want to display them under other names called xx1, xx2, xx3,xxxx4 what I should do?

I read the esttab guide but cannot find the way out.

[Chris Boulis]

Hi Phuc. I find it easy to change the variable names directly in the report produced by esttab.

[Phuc Nguyen]

Chris Boulis
Do you mean we open the excel or CSV file and then edit manually?

[Chris Boulis]

Yes Phuc that is what I mean. I haven't saved to a .csv file before, I usually save to .rtf files then edit my variables as it is often the case that the names we give them in our code will not be clear to others. Good luck.

[William Lisowski]

See also the label option described in the output of help esttab in the section on Labelling, and the output of help label to learn how to assign labels to variables.

[Andrew Musau]

Apart from labeling the variables and using the -label- option, you can change the names directly using the -coeflabel()- option. This is documented under -help esttab- as pointed out by William.

sysuse auto, clear
reg mpg weight turn
esttab, coeflab(weight "whatever1" turn "whatever2")

Res.:

. esttab, coeflab(weight "whatever1" turn "whatever2")

----------------------------
                      (1)  
                      mpg  
----------------------------
whatever1        -0.00536***
                  (-5.31)  

whatever2          -0.134  
                  (-0.75)  

_cons               42.80***
                   (9.03)  
----------------------------
N                      74  
----------------------------
t statistics in parentheses
* p<0.05, ** p<0.01, *** p<0.001