Anderson, Gordon; Linton, Oliver; Whang, Yoon-Jae - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2009
This paper develops methodology for nonparametric estimation of a polarization measure due to Anderson (2004) and … Anderson, Ge, and Leo (2006) based on kernel estimation techniques. We give the asymptotic distribution theory of our estimator … on estimation of unknown quantities in the limiting distribution and show that our method yields consistent inference in …