Split Sample Instrumental Variables
Alan B. Krueger, Joshua D.. An...
Split Sample Instrumental Variables by Alan B. Krueger, Joshua D.. Angrist, National Bureau of Economic Research, Alan B. Krueger, Joshua D.. Angrist, National Bureau of Economic Research
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Split Sample Instrumental Variables

Instrumental Variables (IV) estimates tend to be biased in the same direction as Ordinary Least Squares (OLS) in finite samples if the instruments are weak. To address this problem we propose a new IV estimator which we call Split Sample Instrumental Variables (SSIV). SSIV works as follows: we randomly split the sample in half, and use one half of the sample to estimate parameters of the first-stage equation. We then use these estimated first-stage parameters to construct fitted values and second-stage parameter estimates using data from the other half sample. SSIV is biased toward zero, rather than toward the plim of the OLS estimate. However, an unbiased estimate of the attenuation bias of SSIV can be calculated. We us this estimate of the attenutation bias to derive an estimator that is asymptotically unbiased as the number of instruments tends to infinity, holding the number of observations per instrument fixed. We label this new estimator Unbiased Split Sample Instrumental Variables (USSIV). We apply SSIV and USSIV to the data used by Angrist and Krueger (1991) to estimate the payoff to education.

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Split Sample Instrumental Variables
1995, National Bureau of Economic Research
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June 1995.

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NBER technical working paper series -- no. t0150, Technical Working Paper Series (National Bureau of Economic Research) -- no. t0150

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