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Instrumental Variables Specification

Instrumental Variables Specification is a model-level methodological framework within econometrics and causal inference that identifies and estimates causal relationships by using instrumental variables—exogenous predictors that are correlated with the endogenous explanatory variable but uncorrelated with the error term—to address endogeneity while satisfying exclusion and relevance assumptions.

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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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Specification Tests in Econometrics

Jerry A. Hausman · Econometrica · 1978 · 18.4K citations

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A Note on the Theme of Too Many Instruments<sup>*</sup>

David Roodman · Oxford Bulletin of Economics and Statistics · 2009 · 4.9K citations · Full text

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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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Instrumental Variables and GMM: Estimation and Testing

Christopher F. Baum, Mark E. Schaffer, Steven Stillman · The Stata Journal Promoting communications on statistics and Stata · 2003 · 2.7K citations · Full text

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    Joshua D. Angrist

    Massachusetts Institute of Technology, United States

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  2. MM
    Magne Mogstad

    University of Chicago, United States

    12 publications · 1.2K citations

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    John Cawley

    Cornell University, United States

    9 publications · 1.8K citations

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    James J. Heckman

    University of Chicago, United States

    8 publications · 1.3K citations

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    Richard Blundell

    University College London, United Kingdom

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  1. National Bureau of Economic Research

    Cambridge, United States

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  2. IZA - Institute of Labor Economics

    Bonn, Germany

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    69 publications

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  3. Harvard University

    Cambridge, United States

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  4. University of Chicago

    Chicago, United States

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  5. Massachusetts Institute of Technology

    Cambridge, United States

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  6. University of California, Berkeley

    Berkeley, United States

    22 h-index

    42 publications

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  7. Centre for Economic Policy Research

    London, United Kingdom

    22 h-index

    46 publications

    4.9K citations

  8. Yale University

    New Haven, United States

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    Repository · 193 publications · 9.1K citations

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  2. RePEc: Research Papers in Economics

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  3. The Journal of Human Resources

    JHR · 24 publications · 3.5K citations

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  4. National Bureau of Economic Research

    Repository · 34 publications · 1.8K citations

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  5. American Economic Review

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