Re: st: Two stage least square estimation overidentified Sargan test

[Austin Nichols <austinnichols@gmail.com>]

Not linear transformations--nonlinear transformations.  Are you
referring perhaps to p 523 of
http://www.stata-journal.com/sjpdf.html?articlenum=st0136
? Note that if you assume Z and e are independent, rather than simply
that Z and e are uncorrelated, you can use all manner of
transformations of Z as additional excluded instruments.  You can also
interact Z with any X that you consider exogenous.  In each case, the
overid test is a diagnostic of how reasonable your assumption was.  Be
careful of multiple testing and pretesting bias though--if you have a
lot of poor instruments, some are bound to pass an overid test and
give you really poor estimates.

On Wed, Jun 1, 2011 at 6:11 AM, claudiac.4@libero.it
<claudiac.4@libero.it> wrote:
> Dear statalist,
>
> I am working with a just identified model thus I can not perform the validity
> test proposed by Stata 10 (Sargan test). I read in previous discussion that to
> avoid this problem it is possible to increment the number of instruments by
> adding linear transformations of these. Does someone know something more about
> this? What are the main theoretical references?Please let me know.
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