Should instrumental variables be used as matching variables?

Research in Economics

Volumn 70, Issue 2, 2016, Pages 232-237

  Wooldridge, Jeffrey M ^a  

^a MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Inconsistency; Instrumental variable; Matching; Treatment effect

Indexed keywords

EID: 84959281507     PISSN: 10909443     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.rie.2016.01.001     Document Type: Article

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