期刊
JOURNAL OF ECONOMETRICS
卷 238, 期 2, 页码 -出版社
ELSEVIER SCIENCE SA
DOI: 10.1016/j.jeconom.2023.105570
关键词
Location -scale shift; Quantile regression; Simultaneous shift; Unconditional policy effect; Unconditional regression
This paper analyzes the unconditional effects of a general policy intervention, including location-scale shifts and simultaneous shifts. The study finds that failing to account for these shifts may lead to incorrect assessment of the potential policy effects on the outcome variable of interest.
This paper studies the unconditional effects of a general policy intervention, which includes location-scale shifts and simultaneous shifts as special cases. The location-scale shift is intended to study a counterfactual policy aimed at changing not only the mean or location of a covariate but also its dispersion or scale. The simultaneous shift refers to the situation where shifts in two or more covariates take place simultaneously. For example, a shift in one covariate is compensated at a certain rate by a shift in another covariate. Not accounting for these possible scale or simultaneous shifts will result in an incorrect assessment of the potential policy effects on an outcome variable of interest. The unconditional policy parameters are estimated with simple semiparametric estimators, for which asymptotic properties are studied. Monte Carlo simulations are implemented to study their finite sample performances. The proposed approach is applied to a Mincer equation to study the effects of changing years of education on wages and to study the effect of smoking during pregnancy on birth weight.
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