st: RE: xtivreg2 weak-instrument-robust inference

["Schaffer, Mark E" <M.E.Schaffer@hw.ac.uk>]

Camden,

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> Camden Roberts
> Sent: 13 July 2010 00:49
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> Subject: st: xtivreg2 weak-instrument-robust inference
> 
> Hello all,
> 
> I am attempting to use the xtivreg2 command and have a 
> question about the weak-instrument-robust inference 
> statistics.  In particular, when I estimate the model I 
> receive the following missing statistics:
> 
> Weak-instrument-robust inference
> Tests of joint significance of endogenous regressors B1 in 
> main equation
> Ho: B1=0 and overidentifying restrictions are valid
> Anderson-Rubin Wald test     F(0,159)= .         P-val=     .
> Anderson-Rubin Wald test     Chi-sq(0)=.         P-val=     .
> Stock-Wright LM S statistic  Chi-sq(0)=186.00    P-val=     .
> 
> With the exception of these missing statistics, the other 
> tests for identification seem to suggest that the model is 
> identified.  The output for these tests is below:
> 
> --------------------------------------------------------------
> ----------------
> Partial R-squared of excluded instruments:   0.4127
> Test of excluded instruments:
>   F( 10,   160) =    11.24
>   Prob > F      =   0.0000
> 
> Summary results for first-stage regressions
> -------------------------------------------
> 
> Variable    | Shea Partial R2 |   Partial R2    |  F( 10,   
> 160)    P-value
> lntotlimclas|     0.4127      |     0.4127      |       11.24 
>       0.0000
> 
> Underidentification tests
> Ho: matrix of reduced form coefficients has rank=K1-1 
> (underidentified)
> Ha: matrix has rank=K1 (identified)
> Anderson canon. corr. N*CCEV LM statistic   Chi-sq(10)=76.75  
>  P-val=0.0000
> Cragg-Donald N*CDEV Wald statistic          Chi-sq(10)=130.68 
>  P-val=0.0000
> 
> Weak identification test
> Ho: equation is weakly identified
> Cragg-Donald Wald F-statistic                      11.24
> See main output for Cragg-Donald weak id test critical values
> 
> Underidentification test (Anderson canon. corr. LM 
> statistic):          76.755
>                                                    Chi-sq(10) 
> P-val =   0.0000
> 
> If anyone has an idea of why I may be having this problem, I 
> would greatly appreciate any assistance you could provide.

You haven't given us the regression output, but my guess would be that
you are using the cluster-robust covariance estimator, and that have as
many or more excluded instruments than you have clusters (or panel
units).

The artificial regression used for weak-ID-robust inference involves
testing all the excluded instruments.  If you have more excluded
instruments than clusters, you will run into problems because the
cluster-robust vcv won't be full rank.  In that case, the maximum number
of constraints you can test will be the number of clusters (minus 1, I
think), which isn't enough.

But this is just a guess!

--Mark

> Thank you all,
> 
> 
> Camden Roberts
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