From Replications to Revelations: Heteroskedasticity-Robust Inference

Sebastian Kranz

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Abstract: Analysing the Stata regression commands from 4,420 reproduction packages of leading economic journals, we find that, among the 40,571 regressions specifying heteroskedasticity-robust standard errors, 98.1% adhere to Stata's default HC1 specification. We then compare several heteroskedasticity-robust inference methods with a large-scale Monte Carlo study based on regressions from 155 reproduction packages. Our results show that t-tests based on HC1 or HC2 with default degrees of freedom exhibit substantial over-rejection. Inference methods with customized degrees of freedom, as proposed by Bell and McCaffrey (2002), Hansen (2024), and a novel approach based on partial leverages, perform best. Additionally, we provide deeper insights into the role of leverages and partial leverages across different inference methods.

Date: 2024-11, Revised 2024-12
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