Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/272826 
Year of Publication: 
2022
Series/Report no.: 
cemmap working paper No. CWP14/22
Publisher: 
Centre for Microdata Methods and Practice (cemmap), London
Abstract: 
Shape restrictions have played a central role in economics as both testable implications of theory and sufficient conditions for obtaining informative counterfactual predictions. In this paper we provide a general procedure for inference under shape restrictions in identified and partially identified models defined by conditional moment restrictions. Our test statistics and proposed inference methods are based on the minimum of the generalized method of moments (GMM) objective function with and without shape restrictions. Uniformly valid critical values are obtained through a bootstrap procedure that approximates a subset of the true local parameter space. In an empirical analysis of the effect of childbearing on female labor supply, we show that employing shape restrictions in linear instrumental variables (IV) models can lead to shorter confidence regions for both local and average treatment effects. Other applications we discuss include inference for the variability of quantile IV treatment effects and for bounds on average equivalent variation in a demand model with general heterogeneity. We find in Monte Carlo examples that the critical values are conservatively accurate and that tests about objects of interest have good power relative to unrestricted GMM.
Subjects: 
Shape restrictions
inference on functionals
conditional moment (in)equality restrictions
instrumental variables
nonparametric and semiparametric models
Banach space
Banach lattice
Koltchinskii coupling
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Document Type: 
Working Paper

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