Marginal Treatment Effects and Monotonicity

2024/04/04 by Henrik Sigstad, Sigstad, Henrik
Social Sciences · #European and International Law Studies

paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.2404.03235

Abstract

How robust are analyses based on marginal treatment effects (MTE) to violations of Imbens and Angrist (1994) monotonicity? In this note, I present weaker forms of monotonicity under which popular MTE-based estimands still identify the parameters of interest.

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