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Instrument-based estimation with binarized treatments : issues and tests for the exclusion restriction

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    01.02.2018

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Instrumental variable
LATE
binarized treatment
test
exclusion restriction
MTE
English When estimating local average and marginal treatment effects using instrumental variables (IV), multivalued endogenous treatments are frequently binarized based on a specific threshold in treatment support. However, such binarization introduces a violation of the IV exclusion if (i) the IV affects the multivalued treatment within support areas below and/or above the threshold and (ii) such IV-induced changes in the multivalued treatment affect the outcome. We discuss assumptions that satisfy the IV exclusion restriction with the binarized treatment and permit identifying the average effect of (i) the binarized treatment and (ii) unit-level increases in the original multivalued treatment among specific compliers. We derive testable implications of these assumptions and propose tests, which we apply to the estimation of the returns to (binary) college graduation instrumented by college proximity.
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Faculté des sciences économiques et sociales et du management
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  • English
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Economics
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Faculté SES

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  • Working Papers SES ; 492
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  • RERO DOC 306986
  • RERO R008766497
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