IDEAS home Printed from https://ideas.repec.org/a/wly/quante/v15y2024i1p1-25.html
   My bibliography  Save this article

Moment inequalities for multinomial choice with fixed effects

Author

Listed:
  • Ariel Pakes
  • Jack Porter

Abstract

This paper proposes a new approach to identification of the semiparametric multinomial choice model with fixed effects. The framework employed is the semiparametric version of the traditional multinomial logit with the fixed‐effects model (Chamberlain (1980)). This semiparametric multinomial choice model places no restrictions on either the joint distribution of the random utility disturbances across choices or their within group (or across time) correlations. We show that a novel within‐group comparison leads to a set of conditional moment inequalities. Our main finding shows that the derived conditional moment inequalities yield the sharp identified set for the random utility covariate index, while avoiding the incidental parameter problem. Specializing this result to the binary choice case shows that Manski (1987)'s conditional moment inequalities still lead to sharp bounds without restrictions on covariates.

Suggested Citation

  • Ariel Pakes & Jack Porter, 2024. "Moment inequalities for multinomial choice with fixed effects," Quantitative Economics, Econometric Society, vol. 15(1), pages 1-25, January.
    • Handle: RePEc:wly:quante:v:15:y:2024:i:1:p:1-25
    DOI: 10.3982/QE1776
    as

    Download full text from publisher

    File URL: https://doi.org/10.3982/QE1776
    Download Restriction: no
    File URL: https://libkey.io/10.3982/QE1776?utm_source=ideas
    LibKey link: if access is restricted and if your library uses this service, LibKey will redirect you to where you can use your library subscription to access this item
    ---><---

    More about this item

    Statistics

    Access and download statistics

    Corrections

    All material on this site has been provided by the respective publishers and authors. You can help correct errors and omissions. When requesting a correction, please mention this item's handle: RePEc:wly:quante:v:15:y:2024:i:1:p:1-25. See general information about how to correct material in RePEc.

    If you have authored this item and are not yet registered with RePEc, we encourage you to do it here. This allows to link your profile to this item. It also allows you to accept potential citations to this item that we are uncertain about.

    We have no bibliographic references for this item. You can help adding them by using this form .

    If you know of missing items citing this one, you can help us creating those links by adding the relevant references in the same way as above, for each refering item. If you are a registered author of this item, you may also want to check the "citations" tab in your RePEc Author Service profile, as there may be some citations waiting for confirmation.

    For technical questions regarding this item, or to correct its authors, title, abstract, bibliographic or download information, contact: Wiley Content Delivery (email available below). General contact details of provider: https://edirc.repec.org/data/essssea.html .

    Please note that corrections may take a couple of weeks to filter through the various RePEc services.

    IDEAS is a RePEc service. RePEc uses bibliographic data supplied by the respective publishers.