Inference for Extremal Conditional Quantile Models, with an Application to Market and Birthweight Risks

Quantile regression is an increasingly important empirical tool in economics and other sciences for analyzing the impact of a set of regressors on the conditional distribution of an outcome. Extremal quantile regression, or quantile regression applied to the tails, is of interest in many economic an...

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Main Authors: Chernozhukov, Victor, Fernandez-Val, Ivan
Format: Working Paper
Language:en_US
Published: Cambridge, MA: Department of Economics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology 2011
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Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/65150