
doi: 10.1920/wp.cem.2017.0617 , 10.1920/wp.cem.2015.4415 , 10.47004/wp.cem.2021.3121 , 10.3982/qe826 , 10.48550/arxiv.1508.01378
arXiv: 1508.01378
handle: 10419/130060 , 10419/296268 , 10419/189692 , 10419/246799
doi: 10.1920/wp.cem.2017.0617 , 10.1920/wp.cem.2015.4415 , 10.47004/wp.cem.2021.3121 , 10.3982/qe826 , 10.48550/arxiv.1508.01378
arXiv: 1508.01378
handle: 10419/130060 , 10419/296268 , 10419/189692 , 10419/246799
There are many economic parameters that depend on nonparametric first steps. Examples include games, dynamic discrete choice, average exact consumer surplus, and treatment effects. Often estimators of these parameters are asymptotically equivalent to a sample average of an object referred to as the influence function. The influence function is useful in local policy analysis, in evaluating local sensitivity of estimators, and constructing debiased machine learning estimators. We show that the influence function is a Gateaux derivative with respect to a smooth deviation evaluated at a point mass. This result generalizes the classic Von Mises (1947) and Hampel (1974) calculation to estimators that depend on smooth nonparametric first steps. We give explicit influence functions for first steps that satisfy exogenous or endogenous orthogonality conditions. We use these results to generalize the omitted variable bias formula for regression to policy analysis for and sensitivity to structural changes. We apply this analysis and find no sensitivity to endogeneity of average equivalent variation estimates in a gasoline demand application.
Influence function, FOS: Computer and information sciences, ddc:330, H34, semiparametric estimation, J22, influence function, Statistics, bias correction, NPIV, Methodology (stat.ME), C13, C24, C36, C14, H31, C26, C20, Statistics - Methodology
Influence function, FOS: Computer and information sciences, ddc:330, H34, semiparametric estimation, J22, influence function, Statistics, bias correction, NPIV, Methodology (stat.ME), C13, C24, C36, C14, H31, C26, C20, Statistics - Methodology
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