Estimating household consumption insurance
家庭消费保险程度的估计
Summary Blundell, Pistaferri, and Preston ( American Economic Review , 2008, 98(5), 1887–1921) report an estimate of household consumption insurance with respect to permanent income shocks of 36%. In replicating findings for their model and data, we find that this estimate is distorted by a code error and is not robust to weighting scheme for generalized method of moments (GMM) or consideration of quasi maximum likelihood estimation (QMLE), which produces a significantly…