Treatment effect bounds: An application to Swan-Ganz catheterization

Journal of Econometrics

Volumn 168, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 223-243

  Bhattacharya, Jay ^a   Shaikh, Azeem M ^b   Vytlacil, Edward ^c  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

^c YALE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Average treatment effect; Partial identification; Simultaneous equation model; Swan Ganz catheterization; Threshold crossing model

Indexed keywords

PARTIAL IDENTIFICATION; SIMULTANEOUS EQUATIONS; SWAN-GANZ CATHETERIZATION; THRESHOLD-CROSSING; TREATMENT EFFECTS;

STATISTICS;

DIAGNOSIS;

EID: 84860564513     PISSN: 03044076     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jeconom.2012.01.001     Document Type: Article

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