Distributional Effects in Censored Quantile Regressions with Endogeneity and Heteroskedasticity

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contents Distributional effects, captured by quantile frameworks, are well-received for characterizing heterogeneous impacts of economic factors across the unobserved relative ranks. Censored outcome, endogenous regressor and heteroskedastic error are prevalent in empirical work, yet challenge the consistency of existing quantile estimation methods. This paper proposes a two-nested-step(TNS) estimation method for distributional effects in censored quantile models with endogeneity and heteroskedasticity. It combines the sequential analysis with the control function approach, adapting for heterogeneous distributional effects. The estimation algorithm is a two-step procedure nested with a sequence of series quantile regressions, thereby providing applied researchers with a computationally tractable and practically feasible tool. Monte Carlo simulation results demonstrate the good performance of our estimator in a finite sample. We apply the proposed method to estimate heterogeneous income elasticities of households across relative ranks of commodity expenditure using data from the UK Family Expenditure Survey.
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Wang, Xi
Econometrics
Distributional effects, captured by quantile frameworks, are well-received for characterizing heterogeneous impacts of economic factors across the unobserved relative ranks. Censored outcome, endogenous regressor and heteroskedastic error are prevalent in empirical work, yet challenge the consistency of existing quantile estimation methods. This paper proposes a two-nested-step(TNS) estimation method for distributional effects in censored quantile models with endogeneity and heteroskedasticity. It combines the sequential analysis with the control function approach, adapting for heterogeneous distributional effects. The estimation algorithm is a two-step procedure nested with a sequence of series quantile regressions, thereby providing applied researchers with a computationally tractable and practically feasible tool. Monte Carlo simulation results demonstrate the good performance of our estimator in a finite sample. We apply the proposed method to estimate heterogeneous income elasticities of households across relative ranks of commodity expenditure using data from the UK Family Expenditure Survey.
title Distributional Effects in Censored Quantile Regressions with Endogeneity and Heteroskedasticity
topic Econometrics
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2602.19279