5 papers · 1 filter
Bivariate Distribution Regression; Theory, Estimation and an Application to Intergenerational Mobility
Victor Chernozhukov, Iván Fernández-Val, Jonas Meier +2
We employ distribution regression (DR) to estimate the joint distribution of two outcome variables conditional on chosen covariates. While Bivariate Distribution Regression (BDR) i…
A simple distributional difference-in-differences estimator for univariate and bivariate outcomes
Iván Fernández-Val, Jonas Meier, Aico van Vuuren +1
We provide a simple distribution regression estimator for treatment effects in the difference-in-differences (DiD) design. Our procedure is particularly useful when the treatment e…
Conditional Rank-Rank Regression
Victor Chernozhukov, Iván Fernández-Val, Jonas Meier +2
Rank-rank regression is commonly employed in economic research as a way of capturing the relationship between two economic variables. The slope of this regression is the Spearman r…
Marital Sorting, Household Inequality and Selection
Iván Fernández-Val, Aico van Vuuren, Francis Vella
Using CPS data for 1976 to 2022 we explore how wage inequality has evolved for married couples with both spouses working full time full year, and its impact on household income ine…
Hours Worked and the U.S. Distribution of Real Annual Earnings 1976-2019
Iván Fernández-Val, Franco Peracchi, Aico van Vuuren +1
We examine the impact of annual hours worked on annual earnings by decomposing changes in the real annual earnings distribution into composition, structural and hours effects. We d…