How to make a dependent variable label for each column Stargazer

Question

I want to format my stargazer table like what is below. This is my code

stargazer(reg_1a, reg_2a, reg_3a, reg_4a, reg_5a, reg_6a, type="text",
          dep.var.labels = c("Ed76", "Ed76", "Wages", "Wages", "Wages", "Wages"),
          model.names = FALSE,
          title = "Table 3", 
          keep = c("nearc4", "ed76"),
          omit.stat = c("rsq", "adj.rsq", "ser", "f"),
          single.row = FALSE,
          column.separate = c(1,1,1,1,1,1),
          multicolumn = TRUE,
          column.labels = c("OLS","OLS","OLS", "OLS", "iv", "iv"))

these are the results I am getting

Table 3
=================================================================
                             Dependent variable:                 
             ----------------------------------------------------
                   Educ                       Educ               
               OLS      OLS      OLS     OLS       iv       iv   
               (1)      (2)      (3)     (4)      (5)      (6)   
-----------------------------------------------------------------
nearc4       0.290*** 0.273*** 0.043** 0.048***                  
             (0.081)  (0.077)  (0.018) (0.018)                   

ed76                                            0.027*** 0.035***
                                                (0.004)  (0.004) 

-----------------------------------------------------------------
Observations  3,613    3,613    3,010   3,010    3,010    3,010  
=================================================================
Note:                                 *p<0.1; **p<0.05; ***p<0.01

but this is what I want

Table 3
=================================================================

             ----------------------------------------------------
               ed76     ed76     wages   wages     wages   wages              
               OLS      OLS      OLS     OLS       iv       iv   
               (1)      (2)      (3)     (4)      (5)      (6)   
-----------------------------------------------------------------
nearc4       0.290*** 0.273*** 0.043** 0.048***                  
             (0.081)  (0.077)  (0.018) (0.018)                   

ed76                                            0.027*** 0.035***
                                                (0.004)  (0.004) 

-----------------------------------------------------------------
Observations  3,613    3,613    3,010   3,010    3,010    3,010  
=================================================================
Note:                                 *p<0.1; **p<0.05; ***p<0.01

I'm not sure how to assign the dep. variable lines to each column.

score 2 · Accepted Answer · answered Dec 09 '17 at 13:54

The dep.var.labels argument is only looking for two values, since you only have two different dependent variables. As an example, the following code uses the mtcars dataset. This code doesn't work correctly:

library(stargazer)
data(mtcars)
lm1 <- lm(data=mtcars, mpg ~ cyl)
lm2 <- lm(data=mtcars, mpg ~ disp)
lm3 <- lm(data=mtcars, hp ~ cyl)
lm4 <- lm(data=mtcars, hp ~ disp)
stargazer(lm1, lm2, lm3, lm4, 
          type = "text",
          dep.var.labels = c("mpg", "mpg", "hp", "hp"),
          column.labels=c("1", "2", "3", "4"),
          column.separate = c(1,1,1,1))

Whereas this code generates the correct labels:

stargazer(lm1, lm2, lm3, lm4, 
          type = "text",
          dep.var.labels = c("mpg", "hp"),
          column.labels=c("1", "2", "3", "4"),
          column.separate = c(1,1,1,1))

How to make a dependent variable label for each column Stargazer

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