What Impulse Response Do Instrumental Variables Identify?

What do instrumental variable models deliver with discrete dependent variables?

Instrumental Variables Response to Angrist and Imbens

My 1997 JHR paper neither endorsed nor condemned the use of instrumental variables (IV) to estimate the parameters of economic models. Its main goal was to remind readers of some basic points developed in a series of papers with Richard Robb (1985, 1986), We establish that when responses to "treatment" or a policy intervention vary across persons even after conditioning on observable variables ...

Do We Know What We Do not Know? A Response to Celine Bonnet

Ecological Inferencewith Instrumental Variables

This note observes that instrumental variables techniques are useful not only for estimating causal effects, but that they simultaneously solve the ecological inference problem. ∗Correspondence can be addressed to the author at MEDS Department, Kellogg School of Management, 2001 Sheridan Rd, Evanston, IL 60208, or by email: [email protected]. The ecological inference problem i...

Mediating Instrumental Variables