Average treatment effect bounds with an instrumental variable : theory and practice / Carlos A. Flores, Xuan Chen.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Flores, Carlos A., author.

Chen, Xuan (Researcher in labor economics), author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Instrumental variables (Statistics).

Latent variables.

Physical Description:

vii, 104 pages ; 25 cm

Place of Publication:

Singapore : Springer, [2018]

Summary:

This book reviews recent approaches for partial identification of average treatment effects with instrumental variables in the program evaluation literature, including Manski's bounds, bounds based on threshold crossing models, and bounds based on the Local Average Treatment Effect (LATE) framework. It compares these bounds across different sets of assumptions, surveys relevant methods to assess the validity of these assumptions, and discusses estimation and inference methods for the bounds. The book also reviews some empirical applications employing bounds in the program evaluation literature. It aims to bridge the gap between the econometric theory on which the different bounds are based and their empirical application to program evaluation.

Contents:

Introduction

Econometric framework

Bounds under different identification assumption

Comparison of bounds across different assumptions

Assessment of validity of different assumptions

Estimation and inference

Empirical applications of bounds

Conclusion.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9789811320163

9811320160

OCLC:

1044858221