Identification of Causal Effects Using Instrumental Variables

DOI10.2307/2291629zbMath0897.62130OpenAlexW2138290169MaRDI QIDQ3129031

Guido W. Imbens, Joshua D. Angrist, Donald B. Rubin

Publication date: 19 October 1998

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.2307/2291629

noncompliance instrumental variables causal inference structural equation models Rubin causal model local average treatment effect compliers intention-to-treat analysis nonignorable treatment assignment

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Applications of statistics to economics (62P20) Applications of statistics (62P99)

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