Multiline mtitles in -esttab-

[Andreas Fagereng]

Dear Statalisters,
Im using -esttab- to create latex tables from regressions .

esttab model1 model2 model3 using table.tex, mlabels("Fixed effect" "Reduced form fixed effect" "Fixed effect IV")
Often, the model title becomes to long, and I would have liked to have two lines in latex with the model title. E.g. putting "Reduced form" on the line above "fixed effect" for the second model above.

Is there a way to do this, apart from manually fixing it in the tex file afterwards?

Thanks a lot for any help!

Best
Andreas

[Nils Enevoldsen]

There are a few ways, all of which involve using LaTeX code, but my favorite is \shortstack{}:

mtitles("Fixed effect" "\shortstack{Reduced form\\fixed effect}" "Fixed effect IV")

Note about backslashes: both Stata and TeX use the backslash as an escape character. Things can get confusing if you want to, say, store your model titles as Stata macros, because the macro will be evaluated when Stata prints it. -macval()- is your friend if you want to put TeX code in Stata macros.

Terminology note: -mlabels- and -mtitles- are not exactly the same thing. -mlabels- is really an -estout- option, but is permitted for -esttab- like all -estout- options. Since you are using -esttab-, -esttab, mlabels()- is best avoided. Stick with -esttab, mtitles()- unless you have a specific reason.

[Guney Celbis]

Thanks! this was helpful.

[Andres Santana]

Dear Stata friends, this is my first post, I hope I am following the rules.
I'd like to have multiline titles in an esttab table just as in the example, but without using latex, i.e., directly in the Stata results window.
Is that possible? I've been looking for that but couldn't find any help for that.
Thanks in advance. Best regards,
Andrés

[Nils Enevoldsen]

I don't know if that's possible. You can look up SMCL markup with help smcl for ideas.

I tried the following, but it didn't work.

. sysuse auto, clear
. reg price weight
. esttab ., mtitles("Foo{break}Bar")

----------------------------
                      (1)   
             Foo
~r   
----------------------------
weight              2.044***
                   (5.42)   

_cons              -6.707   
                  (-0.01)   
----------------------------
N                      74   
----------------------------
t statistics in parentheses
* p<0.05, ** p<0.01, *** p<0.001

[Andrew Musau]

You can get two lines with a combination of mgroups() and mtitles()

sysuse auto, clear 
reg price weight
esttab .,mgroups("Two ") mtitles("is OK")  nonumbers

Result:

----------------------------
                     Two    
                    is OK  
----------------------------
weight              2.044***
                   (5.42)  

_cons              -6.707  
                  (-0.01)  
----------------------------
N                      74  
----------------------------
t statistics in parentheses
* p<0.05, ** p<0.01, *** p<0.001

[Andres Santana]

Thank you Nils and Andrew, I think that the mgroups() and mtitles() combination solves the problem! Best regards and nice analyses,
Andrés

[Sabrin Rahman]

I am using these to create a table, but I want to rename my columns to column1- robust st.errors, column 2: cluster robust, Instead of FLPR

	(1)	(2)
	FLPR	FLPR
FDIIFLOWS_LOG	-0.2957***	-0.2957***
	(0.1041)	(0.0822)
GDPGrowth	-0.0019	-0.0019
	(0.0240)	(0.0247)
NaturalresourceRent	-0.0343	-0.0343
	(0.0327)	(0.0259)
Generalgovernmentexpenditure	0.0422	0.0422
	(0.0587)	(0.0376)
Schoolsecondaryfemale	-0.0496	-0.0496**
	(0.0390)	(0.0209)
UrbanPopulationControl	0.0762	0.0762
	(0.1345)	(0.0450)
polity2	-0.1295	-0.1295**
	(0.0787)	(0.0606)
Exports	0.0468	0.0468***
	(0.0356)	(0.0122)
Fertilityrate	0.4640	0.4640
	(0.8038)	(0.3152)
_cons	52.6528***	52.6528***
	(7.4203)	(2.7614)
N	803	803
R2	0.154

The commands I used:

xtreg FLPR FDIIFLOWS_LOG GDPGrowth NaturalresourceRent Generalgovernmentexpenditure Schoolsecondaryfemale UrbanPopulationControl polity2 Exports Fertilityrate, fe cluster( countrycode)
eststo
xtreg FLPR FDIIFLOWS_LOG GDPGrowth NaturalresourceRent Generalgovernmentexpenditure Schoolsecondaryfemale UrbanPopulationControl polity2 Exports Fertilityrate, fe vce(robust)
eststo
xtscc FLPR FDIIFLOWS_LOG GDPGrowth NaturalresourceRent Generalgovernmentexpenditure Schoolsecondaryfemale UrbanPopulationControl polity2 Exports Fertilityrate, fe
eststo
esttab using myfile21.rtf , star(* .10 ** .05 *** .01) b(4) se r2 nogaps

[Andrew Musau]

esttab using myfile21.rtf , star(* .10 ** .05 *** .01) b(4) se r2 nogaps mtitles("Robust SE" "Cluster Robust")

[Sabrin Rahman]

Thank you sooooo much :D

[Castor Comploj]

Is this still supposed to work (in 2023) in #2?

  mtitles("Fixed effect" "\shortstack{Reduced form\\fixed effect}" "Fixed effect IV")

Stata seems to print the whole thing, including \shortstack.

[Nils Enevoldsen]

Yes, it still works. Are you exporting a LaTeX table, or using a different export format?

[Castor Comploj]

Understood.
I wrote above using html. I see now that this thread is using LaTeX.