Instrumental variables

Content for Tuesday, November 7, 2023

Videos

Please watch the following from this YouTube playlist.

• Introduction to Instrumental Variables (IV)

You can also watch the playlist (and skip around to different sections) here:

Readings

• Chapter 5 in Impact Evaluation in Practice (Gertler et al. 2016)
• Chapter 10 in Methods Matter (Murnane and Willett 2011)

Slides

On the day of class, you will find my slides on Canvas.

References

Gertler, Paul J., Sebastian Martinez, Patrick Premand, Laura B. Rawlings, and Christel M. J. Vermeersch. 2016. Impact Evaluation in Practice. 2nd ed. Inter-American Development Bank; World Bank. https://openknowledge.worldbank.org/handle/10986/25030.

Murnane, Richard J., and John B. Willett. 2011. Methods Matter: Improving Causal Inference in Educational and Social Science Research. Oxford: Oxford University Press.