RIF Regression via Sensitivity Curves

Javier Alejo, Gabriel Montes-Rojas () and Walter Sosa-Escudero

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Abstract: This paper proposes an empirical method to implement the recentered influence function (RIF) regression of Firpo, Fortin and Lemieux (2009), a relevant method to study the effect of covariates on many statistics beyond the mean. In empirically relevant situations where the influence function is not available or difficult to compute, we suggest to use the \emph{sensitivity curve} (Tukey, 1977) as a feasible alternative. This may be computationally cumbersome when the sample size is large. The relevance of the proposed strategy derives from the fact that, under general conditions, the sensitivity curve converges in probability to the influence function. In order to save computational time we propose to use a cubic splines non-parametric method for a random subsample and then to interpolate to the rest of the cases where it was not computed. Monte Carlo simulations show good finite sample properties. We illustrate the proposed estimator with an application to the polarization index of Duclos, Esteban and Ray (2004).

Date: 2021-12
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