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Jackknife Instrumental Variable Inference

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  • Federico Crudu
  • Giovanni Mellace
  • Zsolt S'andor

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This paper introduces a class of jackknife-based test statistics for linear regression models with endogeneity and heteroskedasticity in the presence of many potentially weak instrumental variables. The tests may be used when considering hypotheses on the full parameter vector or hypotheses defined as linear restrictions. We show that in the limit and under the null the proposed statistics are distributed as a combination of chi squares but by modifying the objective function we derive more familiar chi square limits. An extensive simulation study shows the competitive finite sample properties of the proposed tests in particular against Anderson-Rubin-type of statistics. Finally, we provide an empirical illustration that applies the proposed tests to study the effect of alcohol consumption on body mass index using genetic variants as instrumental variables using the UK Biobank.

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  • Federico Crudu & Giovanni Mellace & Zsolt S'andor, 2026. "Jackknife Instrumental Variable Inference," Papers 2604.15437, arXiv.org.
    • Handle: RePEc:arx:papers:2604.15437
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