Too LATE for Natural Experiments: A Critique of Local Average Treatment Effects Using the Example of Angrist and Evans (1998)
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- Öberg, Stefan, 2019. "Too LATE for Natural Experiments: A Critique of Local Average Treatment Effects Using the Example of Angrist and Evans (1998)," SocArXiv acdv4, Center for Open Science.
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causal inference; natural experiment; local average treatment effect; complier average causal effect; instrumental variable;JEL classification:
- C21 - Mathematical and Quantitative Methods - - Single Equation Models; Single Variables - - - Cross-Sectional Models; Spatial Models; Treatment Effect Models
- C90 - Mathematical and Quantitative Methods - - Design of Experiments - - - General
- J13 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Demographic Economics - - - Fertility; Family Planning; Child Care; Children; Youth
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This paper has been announced in the following NEP Reports:- NEP-ECM-2019-11-18 (Econometrics)
- NEP-EXP-2019-11-18 (Experimental Economics)
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