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Robust Identification in Randomized Experiments with Noncompliance

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  • D'esir'e K'edagni
  • Huan Wu
  • Yi Cui

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Instrument variable (IV) methods are widely used in empirical research to identify causal effects of a policy. In the local average treatment effect (LATE) framework, the IV estimand identifies the LATE under three main assumptions: random assignment, exclusion restriction, and monotonicity. However, these assumptions are often questionable in many applications, leading some researchers to doubt the causal interpretation of the IV estimand. This paper considers a robust identification of causal parameters in a randomized experiment setting with noncompliance where the standard LATE assumptions could be violated. We discuss identification under two sets of weaker assumptions: random assignment and exclusion restriction (without monotonicity), and random assignment and monotonicity (without exclusion restriction). We derive sharp bounds on some causal parameters under these two sets of relaxed LATE assumptions. Finally, we apply our method to revisit the random information experiment conducted in Bursztyn, Gonz\'alez, and Yanagizawa-Drott (2020) and find that the standard LATE assumptions are jointly incompatible in this application. We then estimate the robust identified sets under the two sets of relaxed assumptions.

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  • D'esir'e K'edagni & Huan Wu & Yi Cui, 2024. "Robust Identification in Randomized Experiments with Noncompliance," Papers 2408.03530, arXiv.org, revised Mar 2025.
  • Handle: RePEc:arx:papers:2408.03530
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