True/False Economics Questions

Thursday, May 7, 2015

True/False: The two stage least squares estimator is unbiased.

Answer:
False. The two stage least squares estimator is consistent (meaning that as the sample size goes to infinity, the bias goes away). However, it is biased in finite ("small") samples.
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