Lewbel, Arthur
The identification zoo: meanings of identification in econometrics
- Journal of Economic Literature
- 57(4), Dec, 2019: p.835-903.
Over two dozen different terms for identification appear in the econometrics literature,
including set identification, causal identification, local identification, generic identification,
weak identification, identification at infinity, and many more. This survey: 1. gives a new
framework unifying existing definitions of point identification, 2. summarizes and compares
the zooful of different terms associated with identification that appear in the literature, and 3.
discusses concepts closely related to identification, such as normalizations and the differences
in identification between structural models and causal, reduced form models. - Reproduced