COMBINING MICRO AND MACRO DATA IN MICROECONOMETRIC MODELS

被引:134
作者
IMBENS, GW [1 ]
LANCASTER, T [1 ]
机构
[1] BROWN UNIV,PROVIDENCE,RI 02912
基金
美国国家科学基金会;
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10.2307/2297913
中图分类号
F [经济];
学科分类号
02 ;
摘要
Census reports can be interpreted as providing nearly exact knowledge of moments of the marginal distribution of economic variables. This information can be combined with cross-sectional or panel samples to improve accuracy of estimation. In this paper we show how to do this efficiently. We show that the gains from use of marginal information can be substantial. We also discuss how to test the compatibility of sample and marginal information.
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页码:655 / 680
页数:26
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