Instrumental Variables and Two Stage Least Squares
Assume existence of an instrumental variable :
(but
)
The instrumental variable is uncorrelated with the error term
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IV:
(which is to be expected)
It is also much less precisely estimated
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This is the so called „reduced form regression“
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