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Bounds on ATE with discrete outcomes

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The bounds on ATE by Chesher (2007) and Kitagawa (2009b) are compared. The difference between them is attributed to the scalar error assumption imposed by Chesher (2007).

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  • Hahn, Jinyong, 2010. "Bounds on ATE with discrete outcomes," Economics Letters, Elsevier, vol. 109(1), pages 24-27, October.
    • Handle: RePEc:eee:ecolet:v:109:y:2010:i:1:p:24-27
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    1. Imbens, Guido W & Angrist, Joshua D, 1994. "Identification and Estimation of Local Average Treatment Effects," Econometrica, Econometric Society, vol. 62(2), pages 467-475, March.
    2. Heckman, James J, 1990. "Varieties of Selection Bias," American Economic Review, American Economic Association, vol. 80(2), pages 313-318, May.
    3. Toru Kitagawa, 2009. "Identification region of the potential outcome distributions under instrument independence," CeMMAP working papers CWP30/09, Centre for Microdata Methods and Practice, Institute for Fiscal Studies.
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    3. Chen, Xuan & Flores, Carlos A. & Flores-Lagunes, Alfonso, 2015. "Going Beyond LATE: Bounding Average Treatment Effects of Job Corps Training," IZA Discussion Papers 9511, Institute of Labor Economics (IZA).

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