Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/130053 
Year of Publication: 
2015
Series/Report no.: 
cemmap working paper No. CWP37/15
Publisher: 
Centre for Microdata Methods and Practice (cemmap), London
Abstract: 
The linear regression model is widely used in empirical work in Economics. Researchers often include many covariates in their linear model specification in an attempt to control for confounders. We give inference methods that allow for many covariates and heteroskedasticity. Our results are obtained using high-dimensional approximations, where the number of covariates are allowed to grow as fast as the sample size. We find that all of the usual versions of Eicker-White heteroskedasticity consistent standard error estimators for linear models are inconsistent under this asymptotics. We then propose a new heteroskedasticity consistent standard error formula that is fully automatic and robust to both (conditional) heteroskedasticity of unknown form and the inclusion of possibly many covariates. We apply our findings to three settings: (i) parametric linear models with many covariates; (ii) semiparametric semi-linear models with many technical regressors; and (iii) linear panel models with many fixed effects.
Subjects: 
high-dimensional models
linear regression
many regressors
heteroskedasticity
standard errors
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Document Type: 
Working Paper

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