Instrumental Variables (Applied)

A topic within Econometrics, itself one of 10 topics in that field and part of Economics.

Reading on Instrumental Variables (Applied)

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Paper1991

Does Compulsory School Attendance Affect Schooling and Earnings?

Joshua D. Angrist & Alan B. Krueger

Quarter of birth predicts years of schooling through compulsory attendance laws but not ability, giving an instrument that isolates schooling's effect on earnings from who chooses to stay in school.

36 pageslink checked 17 Sept 2026

Economics · Econometrics

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Paper1994

Identification and Estimation of Local Average Treatment Effects

Guido W. Imbens & Joshua D. Angrist

When an instrument only nudges some people to treatment, what an instrumental-variables estimate identifies is the effect on those compliers specifically, not on everyone.

9 pageslink checked 17 Sept 2026

Economics · Econometrics

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Does Compulsory School Attendance Affect Schooling and Earnings?

Identification and Estimation of Local Average Treatment Effects

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