Efficient bias correction for cross-section and panel data

• 成果类型: Article
• 署名作者: Hahn, Jinyong; Hughes, David W.; Kuersteiner, Guido; Newey, Whitney K.
• 署名单位: University of California System; University of California Los Angeles; Boston College; University System of Maryland; University of Maryland College Park; Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT); National Bureau of Economic Research
• 刊物名称: QUANTITATIVE ECONOMICS
• ISSN/ISSBN: 1759-7323
• DOI: 10.3982/QE2350
• 发表日期: 2024
• 页码: 783-816
• 关键词: Bias correction; higher-order variance; bootstrap; jackknife; C13

摘要

Bias correction can often improve the finite sample performance of estimators. We show that the choice of bias correction method has no effect on the higher-order variance of semiparametrically efficient parametric estimators, so long as the estimate of the bias is asymptotically linear. It is also shown that bootstrap, jackknife, and analytical bias estimates are asymptotically linear for estimators with higher-order expansions of a standard form. In particular, we find that for a variety of estimators the straightforward bootstrap bias correction gives the same higher-order variance as more complicated analytical or jackknife bias corrections. In contrast, bias corrections that do not estimate the bias at the parametric rate, such as the split-sample jackknife, result in larger higher-order variances in the i.i.d. setting we focus on. For both a cross-sectional MLE and a panel model with individual fixed effects, we show that the split-sample jackknife has a higher-order variance term that is twice as large as that of the leave-one-out jackknife.