Extrapolate-ing
Subtitle: external validity and overidentification in the late framework
By: Joshua Angrist, Ivan Fernandez-Val
Contributors: Fernández-Val, Iván; National Bureau of Economic Research
Series: NBER working paper series -- working paper 16566; Working paper series (National Bureau of Economic Research : Online) -- working paper no. 16566.
Publisher: National Bureau of Economic Research
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Cambridge, MA
Language: eng
Format: Electronic resource
Description: "The NBER Bulletin on Aging and Health provides summaries of publications like this.  You can sign up to receive the NBER Bulletin on Aging and Health by email.  This paper develops a covariate-based approach to the external validity of instrumental variables (IV) estimates.  Assuming that differences in observed complier characteristics are what make IV estimates differ from one another and from parameters like the effect of treatment on the treated, we show how to construct estimates for new subpopulations from a given set of covariate-specific LATEs.  We also develop a reweighting procedure that uses the traditional overidentification test statistic to define a population for which a given pair of IV estimates has external validity.  These ideas are illustrated through a comparison of twins and sex-composition IV estimates of the effects childbearing on labor supply"--National Bureau of Economic Research web site.
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