MEANING
The average causal effect for individuals whose treatment status is changed by an instrument, under assumptions that identify compliers.
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An instrument identifies an average effect for people whose treatment it changes.Name the target population identified by an instrumental-variable design.
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- local average treatment effect
- estimate the LATE
- effect among compliers
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The encouragement instrument identified a local average treatment effect for students whose enrollment decision it changed.
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- local average treatment effect
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With a binary instrument, this target is typically the complier average effect, not an effect for every participant.
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