Robust Causal Inference with Continuous Instruments Using the Local Instrumental Variable Curve
利用局部工具变量曲线进行连续工具变量的稳健因果推断
Summary Instrumental variables are commonly used to estimate effects of a treatment afflicted by unmeasured confounding, and in practice instruments are often continuous (e.g. measures of distance, or treatment preference). However, available methods for continuous instruments have important limitations: they either require restrictive parametric assumptions for identification, or else rely on modelling both the outcome and the treatment process well (and require modelling…