On Tuesday, April 15, 2003, at 02:33 AM, Liliana wrote:
I wonder if there is a way in stata to perform instrumental
variables/2SLS
with three endogenous variables. I was told that the only way is
doing it
with two at a time. Is this true?
Doing a manual search I found the following command:
ivreg y1 x1 x2 (y2 y3= z1 z2 z3)
that this imply that in order to run this model (with 3 endogenous)
the
"z" variables have to be the same for the two endogenous y2 and y3
There is no restriction on the number of endogenous variables in ivreg.
One might say
ivreg y1 (y2 y3 y4 y5 y6 y7 y8 y9 y10 = list of instruments) x1 x2 x3
...
subject to the constraint of the order condition: that the "list of
instruments" is at least as long as the number of R.H. endogenous
variables. It will then be the case that all of those instruments (as
well as x1 x2 x3...) will be used in the 'first stage' regressions --
and this is as it should be. IV from a theoretical standpoint does not
allow one to choose which instruments appear in which first stage
regressions -- a point often made on Statalist. This is not a
Stata-imposed constraint; it is imposed by the underlying econometric
theory. The textbook descriptions which suggest 'this is an instrument
for that' are quite misleading in that regard.
Thanks
Kit
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