3 papers
econ.GN2026
A Users' Guide to Uncovering Worker and Firm Effects: The ABC of AKM
Stephane Bonhomme, Elena Manresa, Thibaut Lamadon
The AKM model introduced by Abowd, Kramarz and Margolis (1999) has become a workhorse to study worker and firm heterogeneity, and to understand the sources of wage dispersion in th…
econ.EM2025
Why Do the Elderly Save? Using Health Shocks to Uncover Bequests Motives
Tetsuya Kaji, Elena Manresa
We revisit the saving behavior of elderly singles using an adversarial structural estimation framework by Kaji, Manresa and Pouliot (2023). The method bridges the simulated method…
econ.EM2022
Spectral and post-spectral estimators for grouped panel data models
Denis Chetverikov, Elena Manresa
In this paper, we develop spectral and post-spectral estimators for grouped panel data models. Both estimators are consistent in the asymptotics where the number of observations $N…