st: re: overidentification

[Kit Baum <baum@bc.edu>]

Anna wrote

My dependent variable is education and my key explanatory variable is
institutions which I have instrumented using Acemoglu's settler  
mortality
rates.  I have ran 2sls regressions with alternative instruments  
instead of
settler mortality rates but then I cannot work out how to get stata  
to work out
p-vale for a chi squared test to test whether the 2SLS coefficients  
(estimated
with the alternative instruments) versus the coefficients estimated  
using
(log)settler mortality (the IV i have used in this dissertation) in  
addition to
the “true” instruments are significantly different.

(I guess that the null hypthesis for the p value would be that the  
coefficient
on average protection against expropriation risk (the institutions  
variable) in
the second stage regression is the same as when instrumented using  
log mortality
of settlers in addition to the alternative instruments)

I have been advised to use ivreg2 however I am not sure exactly what  
commands I
need or how to write the commands?



Please see BC WP 667 by Baum/Schaffer/Stillman on the URL below. It  
was released since I suggested the use of -ivreg2-. It discusses the  
kinds of tests you need to do extensively. Better yet, as two of the  
three coauthors of -ivreg2- and of this paper will be at Cass  
Business School next Monday and Tuesday, and I will be giving an  
hour's lecture on instrumental variables Tuesday afternoon

http://stata.com/meeting/13uk/

do try to drop by and we can chat about the particulars of your problem.

Cheers
Kit

Kit Baum, Boston College Economics and DIW Berlin
http://ideas.repec.org/e/pba1.html
An Introduction to Modern Econometrics Using Stata:
http://www.stata-press.com/books/imeus.html



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