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损失厌恶与政策干预的福利排序AI 解读

This paper develops theoretical criteria and econometric methods to rank policy interventions in terms of welfare when individuals are loss-averse. Our new criterion for “loss aversion-sensitive dominance” defines a weak partial ordering of the distributions of policy-induced gains and losses. It applies to the class of welfare functions which model individual preferences with non-decreasing and loss-averse attitudes towards changes in outcomes. We also develop new…

价值函数的一致推断AI 解读

We propose a method to conduct uniform inference for the (optimal) value function, that is, the function that results from optimizing an objective function marginally over one of its arguments. Marginal optimization is not Hadamard differentiable (that is, compactly differentiable) as a map between the spaces of objective and value functions, which is problematic because standard inference methods for nonlinear maps usually rely on Hadamard differentiability. However, we…

分位数回归的广义矩估计AI 解读

This paper develops generalized method of moments (GMM) estimation and inference procedures for quantile regression models. We propose a GMM estimator for simultaneous estimation across multiple quantiles. This estimator allows us to model quantile regression coefficients using flexible parametric restrictions across quantiles. The restrictions and simultaneous estimation lead to efficiency gains compared to standard methods. We establish the asymptotic properties of the GMM…

处理效应分布及其泛函的部分识别AI 解读

In the treatment effect problem, the available information is on the marginal distributions of potential outcomes, but not on their joint distribution. The only point identified functional of the treatment effect distribution is its average, the average treatment effect (ATE). Quantiles and other functionals of the distribution of treatment effect are only partially identified. Bounds on a single quantile and on the cumulative distribution function (c.d.f.) in a single point…

干扰函数采用非参数估计时双重稳健估计量的性质AI 解读

An estimator of a finite-dimensional parameter is said to be doubly robust (DR) if it imposes parametric specifications on two unknown nuisance functions, but only requires that one of these two specifications is correct in order for the estimator to be consistent for the object of interest. In this article, we study versions of such estimators that use local polynomial smoothing for estimating the nuisance functions. We show that such semiparametric two-step (STS) versions…

实际与反事实增长发生曲线及 Δ 洛伦兹曲线：估计与推断AI 解读

Summary Different economic growth episodes display very different distributional characteristics, both across countries and over time. Growth is sometimes accompanied by rising and sometimes by falling inequality. Applied economists have come to rely on the growth incidence curve, which gives the quantile‐specific rate of income growth over a certain period, to describe these differences. This paper introduces a mean‐independent analogue, the delta Lorenz curve, which gives…

分位数回归模型中的测量误差AI 解读

This paper develops estimation and inference for quantile regression models with measurement errors. We propose an easily-implementable semiparametric two-step estimator when repeated measures for the covariates are available. Building on recent theory on Z-estimation with infinite-dimensional parameters, consistency and asymptotic normality of the proposed estimator are established. We also develop statistical inference procedures and show the validity of a bootstrap…

利用不平等指标变化识别与估计干预的分布影响AI 解读

This paper presents estimators of distributional impacts of interventions when selection to the program is based on observable characteristics. Distributional impacts are calculated as differences in inequality measures of the marginal distributions of potential outcomes of receiving and not receiving the treatment. The estimation procedure involves a first non-parametric estimation of the propensity score. In the second step weighted versions of inequality measures are…

分位数处理效应的有效半参数估计AI 解读

This paper develops estimators for quantile treatment effects under the identifying restriction that selection to treatment is based on observable characteristics. Identification is achieved without requiring computation of the conditional quantiles of the potential outcomes. Instead, the identification results for the marginal quantiles lead to an estimation procedure for the quantile treatment effect parameters that has two steps: nonparametric estimation of the propensity…