Instruments with Heterogeneous Effects: Bias, Monotonicity, and Localness

In Instrumental Variables (IV) estimation, the effect of an instrument on an endogenous variable may vary across the sample. In this case, IV produces a local average treatment effect (LATE), and if monotonicity does not hold, then no effect of interest is identified. In this paper, I calculate the...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Huntington-Klein Nick
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: De Gruyter 2020-12-01
Series:Journal of Causal Inference
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Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1515/jci-2020-0011