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Université de Fribourg

Testing instrument validity for LATE identification based on inequality moment constraints

Huber, Martin ; Mellace, Giovanni

In: Review of economics and statistics, 2015, vol. 97, no. 2, p. 398-411

We derive testable implications of instrument validity in just identified treat- ment effect models with endogeneity and consider several tests. The identifying assump- tions of the local average treatment effect allow us to both point identify and bound the mean potential outcomes (i) of the always takers under treatment and (ii) of the never takers under non-treatment. The point identified...

Université de Fribourg

It's never too LATE : A new look at local average treatment effects with or without defiers

Dahl, Christian M. ; Huber, Martin ; Mellace, Giovanni

In: Discussion papers on business and economics, 2017, vol. 2, p. 1-69

In heterogeneous treatment effect models with endogeneity, identification of the LATE typically relies on the availability of an exogenous instrument monotonically related to treatment participation. We demonstrate that a strictly weaker local monotonicity condition identifies the LATEs on compliers and on defiers. We propose simple estimators that are potentially more efficient than 2SLS,...