Partial identification of local average treatment effects with an invalid instrument

Journal of Business and Economic Statistics

Volumn 31, Issue 4, 2013, Pages 534-545

  Flores, Carlos A ^a   Flores Lagunes, Alfonso ^b,c  

^a CALIFORNIA POLYTECHNIC STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b BINGHAMTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c IZA   (Germany)

Author keywords

Causal inference; Instrumental variables; Mediation analysis; Nonparametric bounds; Principal stratification

Indexed keywords

EID: 84897727553     PISSN: 07350015     EISSN: 15372707     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/07350015.2013.822760     Document Type: Article

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