He didn't panic. He added the final, crucial piece of syntax: xtreg price exports rainfall, fe vce(cluster country_id)
Before you can perform any exclusive operations, you must declare your dataset as a panel using the xtset command. This tells Stata which variable identifies the entities (e.g., countries, firms) and which identifies the time (e.g., years). xtset panelvar timevar
Stata 17+ introduced two exclusive commands for causal inference with panel data:
Stata Panel Data Exclusive ((top)) Jun 2026
He didn't panic. He added the final, crucial piece of syntax: xtreg price exports rainfall, fe vce(cluster country_id)
Before you can perform any exclusive operations, you must declare your dataset as a panel using the xtset command. This tells Stata which variable identifies the entities (e.g., countries, firms) and which identifies the time (e.g., years). xtset panelvar timevar stata panel data exclusive
Stata 17+ introduced two exclusive commands for causal inference with panel data: He didn't panic