Instrumental variables and the sign of the average treatment effect
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工具变量与平均处理效应的符号
- 研究问题
- 在处理、结果和工具变量均为二元变量时，哪些观测分布能够支持所设假设，并识别平均处理效应的正负符号？
- 方法与思路
- 作者考察工具外生性及两类方程单调性的四种组合，用约化式参数刻画假设相容性与符号识别，并构造联合推断程序。
- 材料陈述的贡献
- 摘要称结果区分约化式参数过小、适中和过大时的识别与相容性，并给出涵盖任意弱工具的一致有效推断及矩不等式并集检验。
- 阅读关注点
- 应核对两种单调性的具体定义、约化式参数阈值及其他观测量的作用，并检查复合零假设和弱工具下的一致有效性证明。
- 阅读边界
- 所给出版社摘要没有列出识别阈值、完整假设或检验实现细节；其结论针对二元设置，不能直接推广到一般连续变量。
原文摘要
This paper considers identification and inference about the sign of the average effect of a binary endogenous regressor (or treatment) on a binary outcome of interest when a binary instrument is available. In this setting, the average effect of the endogenous regressor on the outcome is sometimes referred to as the average treatment effect (ATE). We consider four different sets of assumptions: instrument exogeneity, instrument exogeneity and monotonicity on the outcome equation, instrument exogeneity and monotonicity on the equation for the endogenous regressor, or instrument exogeneity and monotonicity on both the outcome equation and the equation for the endogenous regressor. For each of these sets of conditions, we characterize when (i) the distribution of the observed data is inconsistent with the assumptions and (ii) the distribution of the observed data is consistent with the assumptions and the sign of ATE is identified. A distinguishing feature of our results is that they are stated in terms of a reduced form parameter from the population regression of the outcome on the instrument. In particular, we find that the reduced form parameter being far enough, but not too far, from zero, implies that the distribution of the observed data is consistent with our assumptions and the sign of ATE is identified, while the reduced form parameter being too far from zero implies that the distribution of the observed data is inconsistent with our assumptions. For each set of restrictions, we also develop methods for simultaneous inference about the consistency of the distribution of the observed data with our restrictions and the sign of the ATE when the distribution of the observed data is consistent with our restrictions. We show that our inference procedures are valid uniformly over a large class of possible distributions for the observed data that include distributions where the instrument is arbitrarily “weak.” A novel feature of the methodology is that the null hypotheses involve unions of moment inequalities.