Unconditional Partial Effects of Binary Covariates

Christoph Rothe

No 09-79, TSE Working Papers from Toulouse School of Economics (TSE)

Abstract: In this paper, we study the effect of a small ceteris paribus change in the marginal distribution of a binary covariate on some feature of the unconditional distribution of an outcome variable of interest. We show that the RIF regression techniques recently proposed by Firpo, Fortin, and Lemieux (2009) do not estimate this quantity. Moreover, we show that such parameters are in general only partially identified, and derive straightforward expressions for the identified set. The results are implemented in the context of an empirical application that studies the effect of union membership rates on the distribution of wages.

Keywords: unconditional partial effect; partial identification; unconditional quantile regression (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: C14 C31 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2009-09
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