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Title: Identification and Estimation of Nonseparable Triangular Equations with Mismeasured Instruments

Authors: Shaomin Wu
Abstract: In this paper, I study the nonparametric identification and estimation of the marginal effect of an endogenous variable $X$ on the outcome variable $Y$, given a potentially mismeasured instrument variable $W^*$, without assuming linearity or separability of the functions governing the relationship between observables and unobservables. To address the challenges arising from the co-existence of measurement error and nonseparability, I first employ the deconvolution technique from the measurement error literature to identify the joint distribution of $Y, X, W^*$ using two error-laden measurements of $W^*$. I then recover the structural derivative of the function of interest and the "Local Average Response" (LAR) from the joint distribution via the "unobserved instrument" approach in Matzkin (2016). I also propose nonparametric estimators for these parameters and derive their uniform rates of convergence. Monte Carlo exercises show evidence that the estimators I propose have good finite sample performance.
Subjects: Econometrics (econ.EM)
Cite as: arXiv:2404.13735 [econ.EM]
  (or arXiv:2404.13735v1 [econ.EM] for this version)

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From: Shaomin Wu [view email]
[v1] Sun, 21 Apr 2024 18:22:08 GMT (44kb)

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