A simple estimator for the distribution of random coefficients

We propose a simple mixtures estimator for recovering the joint distribution of parameter heterogeneity in economic models, such as the random coefficients logit. The estimator is based on linear regression subject to linear inequality constraints, and is robust, easy to program, and computationally...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Ryan, Stephen, Fox, Jeremy T., Kim, Kyoo Il, Bajari, Patrick
Other Authors: Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Economics
Format: Article
Language:en_US
Published: The Econometric Society 2012
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/73196