Jennifer,
Quoting Jennifer Alix <[email protected]>:
> Hello,
>
> Does anyone have a program that allows one to interact an
> instrumented
> variable with other variables in a regression equation AND
> calculates the
> correct standard errors for this? Example:
>
> y = b1x1+b2x2+b3x1*x2
> I want to instrument x2 with some z's to get:
> y = b1x1+b2x2hat+b3x1*x2hat
>
> It seems to me that this should be out there somewhere...
I'm not aware of any such program out there. It's not hard, though, to
interact x1 with the z's to generate instruments that correspond to the
x1*x2 term. That said, one needs to be a bit careful here - see the
Davidson and MacKinnon (1993) book, p. 226 and the references therein.
Hope this helps.
--Mark
>
> Thanks,
> Jennifer
>
>
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Prof. Mark Schaffer
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