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Instrumental Variable Analysis

Instrumental Variable Analysis is a statistical method that belongs to the class of causal inference techniques, distinguished by its use of an instrumental variable—a measured factor that influences the exposure of interest but affects the outcome only through that exposure—to estimate causal effects while addressing unmeasured confounding.

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Another look at the instrumental variable estimation of error-components models

Manuel Arellano, Olympia Bover · Journal of Econometrics · 1995 · 19.6K citations

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Mendelian randomization: Using genes as instruments for making causal inferences in epidemiology

Debbie A. Lawlor, Roger Harbord, Jonathan A C Sterne et al. · Statistics in Medicine · 2007 · 5K citations

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Statistical Inference in Instrumental Variables Regression with I(1) Processes

Peter C.B. Phillips, Bruce E. Hansen · The Review of Economic Studies · 1990 · 4.8K citations

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Identification of Causal Effects Using Instrumental Variables

Joshua D. Angrist, Guido W. Imbens, Donald B. Rubin · Journal of the American Statistical Association · 1996 · 4.2K citations

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Identification and Estimation of Local Average Treatment Effects

Guido W. Imbens, Joshua D. Angrist · Econometrica · 1994 · 4.1K citations

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  1. GD
    George Davey Smith

    University of Bristol, United Kingdom

    28 publications · 8.8K citations

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  2. JD
    Joshua D. Angrist

    Massachusetts Institute of Technology, United States

    17 publications · 17.3K citations

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  3. PJ
    Pornsit Jiraporn

    Pennsylvania State University, United States

    17 publications · 579 citations

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  4. SB
    Stephen Burgess

    University of Cambridge, United Kingdom

    17 publications · 4.1K citations

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  5. DS
    Dylan S. Small

    University of Pennsylvania, United States

    18 publications · 1.5K citations

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  1. Harvard University

    Cambridge, United States

    48 h-index

    183 publications

    33.4K citations

  2. National Bureau of Economic Research

    Cambridge, United States

    42 h-index

    121 publications

    25.3K citations

  3. IZA - Institute of Labor Economics

    Bonn, Germany

    36 h-index

    95 publications

    10.8K citations

  4. University of Pennsylvania

    Philadelphia, United States

    32 h-index

    98 publications

    9.4K citations

  5. University College London

    London, United Kingdom

    30 h-index

    62 publications

    3.5K citations

  6. University of Bristol

    Bristol, United Kingdom

    29 h-index

    164 publications

    39.2K citations

  7. University of Chicago

    Chicago, United States

    28 h-index

    61 publications

    6.9K citations

  8. University of Michigan

    Ann Arbor, United States

    27 h-index

    103 publications

    5.3K citations

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  1. SSRN Electronic Journal

    Repository · 230 publications · 10.2K citations

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  2. Health Economics

    41 publications · 3.5K citations

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  3. RePEc: Research Papers in Economics

    Repository · 63 publications · 2K citations

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  4. Applied Economics

    35 publications · 1.3K citations

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  5. PLoS ONE

    37 publications · 1.8K citations

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