Penalized Quantile Regression with Semiparametric Correlated Effects: Applications with Heterogeneous Preferences

Matthew Harding () and Carlos Lamarche

No 7741, IZA Discussion Papers from Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)

Abstract: This paper proposes new ?1-penalized quantile regression estimators for panel data, which explicitly allows for individual heterogeneity associated with covariates. We conduct Monte Carlo simulations to assess the small sample performance of the new estimators and provide comparisons of new and existing penalized estimators in terms of quadratic loss. We apply the techniques to two empirical studies. First, the new method is applied to the estimation of labor supply elasticities and we find evidence that positive substitution effects dominate negative wealth effects at the middle of the conditional distribution of hours. The overall effect tends to be larger at the lower tail, which suggests that changes in taxes have different effects across the response distribution. Second, we estimate consumer preferences for nutrients from a demand model using a large scanner dataset of household food purchases. We show that preferences for nutrients vary across the conditional distribution of expenditure and across genders, and emphasize the importance of fully capturing consumer heterogeneity in demand modeling. Both applications highlight the importance of estimating individual heterogeneity when designing economic policy.

Keywords: labor supply; quantile regression; panel data; shrinkage; scanner data (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: C21 C23 J22 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 45 pages
Date: 2013-11
New Economics Papers: this item is included in nep-ecm
References: View references in EconPapers View complete reference list from CitEc
Citations:

Published - published in: Journal of Applied Econometrics, 2017, 32, 342-358

Downloads: (external link)
https://docs.iza.org/dp7741.pdf (application/pdf)

Related works:
Journal Article: Penalized Quantile Regression with Semiparametric Correlated Effects: An Application with Heterogeneous Preferences (2017)
This item may be available elsewhere in EconPapers: Search for items with the same title.

Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text

Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:iza:izadps:dp7741

Ordering information: This working paper can be ordered from
IZA, Margard Ody, P.O. Box 7240, D-53072 Bonn, Germany

Access Statistics for this paper

More papers in IZA Discussion Papers from Institute of Labor Economics (IZA) IZA, P.O. Box 7240, D-53072 Bonn, Germany. Contact information at EDIRC.
Bibliographic data for series maintained by Holger Hinte ().