st: RE: Valid instrument test for exactly identified regression

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

Etanbay,

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> Hi all,
> I have a model that is exactly identified, so the xtivreg2 
> command gives me a zero for the Hansen J statistic.
> Can you please advise: how do I test the validity of the IV, 
> that it doesn't correlate with the errors in the structural equation?

Short answer - you can't.

Slightly longer answer - you have one excluded instrument you are using
to identify one parameter.  That leaves you with no degrees of freedom
to test anything else: 1-1=0.

--Mark

> I know the IV is relevant from the first stage (1st stage 
> F-test, weak-instrument robust inference tests -- all reject 
> null at 99%).
> Thanks!
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