Given additional distributional information in the form of moment restrictions, kernel density and distribution function estimators with implied generalised empirical likelihood probabilities as weights achieve a reduction in variance due to the systematic use of this extra information. The particular interest here is the estimation of densities or distributions of (generalised) residuals in semi-parametric models defined by a finite number of moment restrictions. Such estimates are of great practical interest, being potentially of use for diagnostic purposes, including tests of parametric assumptions on an error distribution, goodness-of-fit tests or tests of overidentifying moment restrictions. The paper gives conditions for the consistency and describes the asymptotic mean squared error properties of the kernel density and distribution estimators proposed in the paper. A simulation study evaluates the small sample performance of these estimators. Supplements provide analytic examples to illustrate situations where kernel weighting provides a reduction in variance together with proofs of the results in the paper.where E[·] denotes expectation taken with respect to the true population probability law of z. The true parameter value β 0 is generally unknown, but can also be fully or partially known in particular applications.Models specified in the form of unconditional moment restrictions (1.1) convey partial information about the distribution F z of z and are ubiquitous in economics; see, e.g., the monographs Hall (2005) and Mátyás (1999). Many other commonly used models lead to estimators that can be reformulated as solutions to a set of moment restrictions. Clearly, models given by conditional moment restrictions imply (1.1). Traditionally, such models are estimated by the generalised method of moments (GMM). However, the performance of GMM estimators and associated test statistics is often poor in finite samples, which has lead to the development of a number of (information-theoretic) alternatives to GMM.This paper focuses on the class of generalised (G) empirical likelihood (EL) estimators, which has attractive large sample properties; see, e.