Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/33223 
Year of Publication: 
2006
Series/Report no.: 
IZA Discussion Papers No. 2047
Publisher: 
Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA), Bonn
Abstract: 
Asymptotic and bootstrap tests are studied for testing whether there is a relation of stochastic dominance between two distributions. These tests have a null hypothesis of nondominance, with the advantage that, if this null is rejected, then all that is left is dominance. This also leads us to define and focus on restricted stochastic dominance, the only empirically useful form of dominance relation that we can seek to infer in many settings. One testing procedure that we consider is based on an empirical likelihood ratio. The computations necessary for obtaining a test statistic also provide estimates of the distributions under study that satisfy the null hypothesis, on the frontier between dominance and nondominance. These estimates can be used to perform bootstrap tests that can turn out to provide much improved reliability of inference compared with the asymptotic tests so far proposed in the literature.
Subjects: 
stochastic dominance
empirical likelihood
bootstrap test
JEL: 
C10
C12
C15
I32
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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