Average Treatment Effect Bounds with an Instrumental Variable: Theory and Practice

• Main Authors: Flores, Carlos A. (Author, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut), Chen, Xuan (http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Singapore : Springer Singapore : Imprint: Springer, 2018.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2018.
• Subjects: Economic theory.; Public finance.; Economic Theory/Quantitative Economics/Mathematical Methods.; Public Economics.

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) frame...