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Cheers,
Mark

From:           	"Dana Shills" <[email protected]>
To:             	[email protected]
Subject:        	Re: st: 2SLS and Instrumental Variables
Date sent:      	Fri, 10 Dec 2004 14:29:35 +0000
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> Thank you Prof. Schaffer and Prof Williams.
> 
> I understand that the instruments might be collinear but I thought to
> be good instruments, there should be no direct paths from the
> instruments to the dependent variable Y1, only indirect paths through
> the endogenous regressor Y2. So if the instruments do come out
> significant, then are they not valid instruments? What am i missing
> here?
> 
> Thanks again
> 
> Dana
> 
> >>>Perhaps because of the loss of degrees of freedom and/or
> multicollinearity between the Zs?  Try a test of the joint
> significance of Z1-Z4.
> 
> >>>>>>That is my first inclination too. To take a more extreme
> >>>>>>example, suppose you had a hundred yes/no questions. Their sum
> >>>>>>(i.e. the number of yes answers) might well have a significant
> >>>>>>effect. That does not mean that if you entered all 100 items in
> >>>>>>a regression that any one of them individually would have a
> >>>>>>significant effect.
> 
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Prof. Mark E. Schaffer
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Department of Economics
School of Management & Languages
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