Under What Assumptions Do Site-by-Treatment Instruments Identify Average Causal Effects?

Sociological Methods and Research

Volumn 42, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 143-163

  Reardon, Sean F ^a   Raudenbush, Stephen W ^b  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

Author keywords

causal inference; instrumental variables; mediation analysis; multisite trials

Indexed keywords

EID: 84883028224     PISSN: 00491241     EISSN: 15528294     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0049124113494575     Document Type: Article

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