Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/130038 
Year of Publication: 
2015
Series/Report no.: 
cemmap working paper No. CWP26/15
Publisher: 
Centre for Microdata Methods and Practice (cemmap), London
Abstract: 
This paper studies inference of preference parameters in semiparametric discrete choice models when these parameters are not point-identified and the identified set is characterized by a class of conditional moment inequalities. Exploring the semiparametric modeling restrictions, we show that the identified set can be equivalently formulated by moment inequalities conditional on only two continuous indexing variables. Such formulation holds regardless of the covariate dimension, thereby breaking the curse of dimensionality for nonparametric inference based on the underlying conditional moment inequalities. We also extend this dimension reducing characterization result to a variety of semi-parametric models under which the sign of conditional expectation of a certain transformation of the outcome is the same as that of the indexing variable.
Subjects: 
partial identification
conditional moment inequalities
discrete choice
preference parameters
curse of dimensionality
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Document Type: 
Working Paper

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