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Efficiency bounds for estimating linear functionals of nonparametric regression models with endogenous regressors

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  • Thomas A. Severini

    (Institute for Fiscal Studies)

  • Gautam Tripathi

    (Institute for Fiscal Studies and University of Luxembourg)

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The main objective of this paper is to derive the efficiency bounds for estimating certain linear functionals of an unknown structural function when the latter is not itself a conditional expectation.

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  • Thomas A. Severini & Gautam Tripathi, 2007. "Efficiency bounds for estimating linear functionals of nonparametric regression models with endogenous regressors," CeMMAP working papers CWP13/07, Centre for Microdata Methods and Practice, Institute for Fiscal Studies.
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