Unconditional Quantile Regressions

Sergio Firpo, Nicole Fortin and Thomas Lemieux

No 533, Textos para discussão from Department of Economics PUC-Rio (Brazil)

Abstract: We propose a new regression method to estimate the impact of explanatory variables on quantiles of the unconditional distribution of an outcome variable. The proposed method consists of running a regression of the (recentered) influence function (RIF) of the unconditional quantile on the explanatory variables. The influence function is a widely used tool in robust estimation that can easily be computed for each quantile of interest. We show how standard partial effects, as well as policy effects, can be estimated using our regression approach. We propose three different regression estimators based on a standard OLS regression (RIFOLS), a Logit regression (RIF-Logit), and a nonparametric Logit regression (RIFNP). We also discuss how our approach can be generalized to other distributional statistics besides quantiles.

Keywords: Influence Functions; Unconditional Quantile; Quantile Regressions. (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 54p
Date: 2006-11
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Journal Article: Unconditional Quantile Regressions (2009)
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