Identification of Causal Effects Using Instrumental Variables
Abstract We outline a framework for causal inference in settings where assignment to a binary treatment is ignorable, but compliance with the assignment is not perfect so that t...
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4 shownTwo-Stage Least Squares Estimation of Average Causal Effects in Models with Variable Treatment Intensity
Abstract Two-stage least squares (TSLS) is widely used in econometrics to estimate parameters in systems of linear simultaneous equations and to solve problems of omitted-variab...
Mostly Harmless Econometrics
The core methods in today's econometric toolkit are linear regression for statistical control, instrumental variables methods for the analysis of natural experiments, and differ...
Split-Sample Instrumental Variables Estimates of the Return to Schooling
Abstract This article reevaluates recent instrumental variables (IV) estimates of the returns to schooling in light of the fact that two-stage least squares is biased in the sam...
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- h-index
- 4
- Publications
- 4
- Citations
- 13,408
- Institution
- Massachusetts Institute of Technology
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