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Anson said
Thank you for the response. You are exactly right about include a
vector of ones and specifying noc, it will be included. Is there a
way to force ivereg2 not to include an exogenous var (ie iota) in the
FSRs? All I can say is the model is structural, and there is a heavy
theoretical justification for suppressing the constant in the first
stage.
As I understand it there is no justification in terms of econometric
theory for suppressing the constant in the FSR if a constant appears
in the structural equation to be estimated. The specification of FSRs
is driven by your desire to use an estimator which produces consistent
estimates of the structural equation when OLS does not. If you use
that IV estimator, you must play by the rules. The Z matrix contains
all instruments, included and excluded, in the model. If you include
iota in the model, it must appear in the Z matrix, and will then be
used in the IV formula.
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