-ivreg2- and thus -xtivreg2- both from SSC have a lot of tests. Have a look at them...
P.S. "grouped" makes me think about a cluster option rather than a panel command
P.P.S. don't forget to have a lot at -cmp- (from ssc, too), which lets you combine several commands (and thus e.g. to allow different instruments for different endogenous variables) in order to make some 2SLS-like estimations
Nicola
At 02.33 15/02/2008 -0500, Renuka Metcalfe wrote:
>Hi
>
>I would like to find out if training which is one of
>my RHS variable is an endogenous variable. The
>original regression was a pay equation as follows:
>
>.xtreg y training meanworkplacetraining x2 x3 x4
>
>I used xtreg as the data are grouped across workplaces
>and considered to be a less biased OLS estimator.
>Training is a binary variable, dummy=1 if they have
>had training and 0 otherwise and the data is
>cross-section data. I left out the meanworkplace
>training for now. I want to deal with one endogenous
>variable at a time.
>
>I did:
>
>.probit training x2 x3 x4 z
>
>where z = my instrument
>
>I then did:
>
>predict ghat
>
>I then issued:
>
>.ivreg pay x2 (training = ghat) x3 x4
>
>Part of what I got is:
>
>Number of obs = 14321
>
> F( 58, 14262) = 115.93
> Prob > F = 0.0000
> R-squared = 0.3104
> Adj R-squared = 0.3076
> Root MSE = .49362
>
> Coef. Std. Err. t P>|t|
>- -------------+----------------------------------------
>training |.2904799 .116244 2.50 0.012
>
>Can I take interpret that the training variable is not
>endogenous? I would be grateful if anyone would tell
>me if I have done it correctly to find out if my
>training variable is endogenous and if it is
>endogenous. If I have done it incorrectly what would
>be the correct way to go about it.
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