Identification of Causal Effects Using Instrumental Variables

Journal of the American Statistical Association

Volumn 91, Issue 434, 1996, Pages 444-455

  Angrist, Joshua D ^a   Imbens, Guido W ^b   Rubin, Donald B ^b  

^a MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Compliers; Intention to treat analysis; Local average treatment effect; Noncompliance; Nonignorable treatment assignment; Rubin Causal Model; Structural equation models

Indexed keywords

EID: 0346880128     PISSN: 01621459     EISSN: 1537274X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/01621459.1996.10476902     Document Type: Article

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