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Locally robust semiparametric estimation

This paper shows how to construct locally robust semiparametric GMM estimators, meaning equivalently moment conditions have zero derivative with respect to the first step and the first step does not affect the asymptotic variance. They are constructed by adding to the moment functions the adjustment term for first step estimation. Locally robust estimators have several advantages. They are vital for valid inference with machine learning in the first step, see Belloni et. al. (2012, 2014), and are less sensitive to the specification of the first step. They are doubly robust for affine moment functions, where moment conditions continue to hold when one first step component is incorrect. Locally robust moment conditions also have smaller bias that is flatter as a function of first step smoothing leading to improved small sample properties. Series first step estimators confer local robustness on any moment conditions and are doubly robust for affine moments, in the direction of the series approximation. Many new locally and doubly robust estimators are given here, including for economic structural models. We give simple asymptotic theory for estimators that use cross-fitting in the first step, including machine learning.

Language
Englisch

Bibliographic citation
Series: cemmap working paper ; No. CWP31/16

Classification
Wirtschaft
Estimation: General
Semiparametric and Nonparametric Methods: General
Single Equation Models; Single Variables: Cross-Sectional Models; Spatial Models; Treatment Effect Models; Quantile Regressions
Production; Cost; Capital; Capital, Total Factor, and Multifactor Productivity; Capacity
Subject
Local robustness
double robustness
semiparametric estimation
bias
GMM

Event
Geistige Schöpfung
(who)
Chernozhukov, Victor
Escanciano, Juan Carlos
Ichimura, Hidehiko
Newey, Whitney K.
Event
Veröffentlichung
(who)
Centre for Microdata Methods and Practice (cemmap)
(where)
London
(when)
2016

DOI
doi:10.1920/wp.cem.2016.3116
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  • Arbeitspapier

Associated

  • Chernozhukov, Victor
  • Escanciano, Juan Carlos
  • Ichimura, Hidehiko
  • Newey, Whitney K.
  • Centre for Microdata Methods and Practice (cemmap)

Time of origin

  • 2016

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