instrumental variable

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instrumental
adjective
uk
/ˌɪn.strəˈmen.təl/us
/ˌɪn.strəˈmen.t̬əl/
formal
If someone or something is instrumental in a process, plan, or system, that person or thing is one of the most important influences in causing it ...
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variable
noun[C]
uk
/ˈveə.ri.ə.bəl/us
/ˈver.i.ə.bəl/
a number, amount, or situation that ...
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Furthermore, the analysis lacked the data required to disentangle the two effects by using, for instance,instrumentalvariableestimation techniques.
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Lagged income was used as theinstrumentalvariable.
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The only difference between the models with and without theinstrumentalvariableis that the remuneration variable is only significant without theinstrumentalvariable.
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Given the potential endogeneity of child mortality, we use theinstrumentalvariablemethod to estimate the fertility equation.
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Rejection of this null hypothesis implies that at least oneinstrumentalvariableis correlated with the disturbance.
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The second issue is the double censoring of the dependent variable in equation (3), which complicates theinstrumentalvariableregression.
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The main difference between the models with and without theinstrumentalvariableis that the remuneration variable is only significant without theinstrumentalvariable.
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Accounting for this possible bias, we use aninstrumentalvariableapproach.
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Therefore,instrumentalvariabletechniques are applied when estimating (2) and (3).
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The results, particularly the sign and statistical significance of the coefficients, did not change with theinstrumentalvariableprocedures.
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To study the effect of selection, we will apply a particularinstrumentalvariableapproach.
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In this work, the remuneration system was endogenous, and by using aninstrumentalvariable, it was found not to have a significant effect.
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To get unbiased and consistent estimates, we used theinstrumentalvariablemethod to predict household expenditure per adult.
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Lagged income is used as theinstrumentalvariable.
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Secondly, given theinstrumentalvariabledesign employed here, the feedbacks between democracy, on the one hand, and investment and education, on the other, have been excluded.
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In table 6, the results for the double-censored model using the actual value of participation and for the double-censored model using theinstrumentalvariableapproach are reported.
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Such a strategy requires aninstrumentalvariablethat must be a good predictor of the first-stage dependent variable but not be correlated with the second-stage dependent variable.
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Also, one can ask the question of what is good inference conditional on the moments that go into theinstrumentalvariableestimate instead of conditional on the whole data set.
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Instrumentalvariableestimation is not likelihood-principle based, but it applies to models for which there may be a likelihood.
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Also, traveling time (for gastroscopy) just falls short of significance when theinstrumentalvariable is included, probably because location of the practice is included in this variable.
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