Instrumental Variables: An Econometrician's Perspective
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I review recent work in the statistics literature on instrumental variables methods from an econometrics perspective. I discuss some of the older, economic, applications including supply and demand models and relate them to the recent applications in settings of randomized experiments with noncompliance. I discuss the assumptions underlying instrumental variables methods and in what settings these may be plausible. By providing context to the current applications, a better understanding of the applicability of these methods may arise.
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- 2022Data-Driven Causal Effect Estimation Based on Graphical Causal Modelling: A Surveycited by 19
- 2022Instrumental Variables in Causal Inference and Machine Learning: A Surveycited by 10
- 2023Local Discovery by Partitioning: Polynomial-Time Causal Discovery Around Exposure-Outcome Pairscited by 9
- 2021Causal Effect Variational Autoencoder with Uniform Treatmentcited by 8
- 2023Conditional Instrumental Variable Regression with Representation Learning for Causal Inferencecited by 8
- 2022Discovering Ancestral Instrumental Variables for Causal Inference from Observational Datacited by 7
- 2022Ancestral Instrument Method for Causal Inference without Complete Knowledgecited by 6
- 2023Structural restrictions in local causal discovery: identifying direct causes of a target variablecited by 5
- 2023Adaptive Instrument Design for Indirect Experimentscited by 5
- 2025ExMAG: Learning of Maximally Ancestral Graphscited by 1
- 2025Aligning Language Models with Observational Data: Opportunities and Risks from a Causal Perspectivecited by 1
- 2024Leaning Time-Varying Instruments for Identifying Causal Effects in Time-Series Datacited by 0
- 2026Iterative Identification Closure: Amplifying Causal Identifiability in Linear SEMs10 Apr 2026
- 2025Large-Scale Bayesian Causal Discovery with Interventional Data2 Oct 2025
- 2025Mitigating Hidden Confounding by Progressive Confounder Imputation via Large Language Models26 Jun 2025
- 2025Aligning Language Models with Observational Data: Opportunities and Risks from a Causal Perspective30 May 2025
- 2025ExMAG: Learning of Maximally Ancestral Graphs11 Mar 2025
- 2024Leaning Time-Varying Instruments for Identifying Causal Effects in Time-Series Data26 Nov 2024
- 2023Adaptive Instrument Design for Indirect Experiments5 Dec 2023
- 2023Local Discovery by Partitioning: Polynomial-Time Causal Discovery Around Exposure-Outcome Pairs25 Oct 2023
- 2023Conditional Instrumental Variable Regression with Representation Learning for Causal Inference3 Oct 2023
- 2023Structural restrictions in local causal discovery: identifying direct causes of a target variable29 Jul 2023
- 2022Instrumental Variables in Causal Inference and Machine Learning: A Survey12 Dec 2022
- 2022Data-Driven Causal Effect Estimation Based on Graphical Causal Modelling: A Survey20 Aug 2022
- 2022Data-Driven Causal Effect Estimation Based on Graphical Causal Modelling: A Surveycited by 19
- 2022Instrumental Variables in Causal Inference and Machine Learning: A Surveycited by 10
- 2023Local Discovery by Partitioning: Polynomial-Time Causal Discovery Around Exposure-Outcome Pairscited by 9
- 2021Causal Effect Variational Autoencoder with Uniform Treatmentcited by 8
- 2023Conditional Instrumental Variable Regression with Representation Learning for Causal Inferencecited by 8
- 2022Discovering Ancestral Instrumental Variables for Causal Inference from Observational Datacited by 7
- 2022Ancestral Instrument Method for Causal Inference without Complete Knowledgecited by 6
- 2023Structural restrictions in local causal discovery: identifying direct causes of a target variablecited by 5
- 2023Adaptive Instrument Design for Indirect Experimentscited by 5
- 2025ExMAG: Learning of Maximally Ancestral Graphscited by 1
- 2024Leaning Time-Varying Instruments for Identifying Causal Effects in Time-Series Datacited by 0
- 2025Mitigating Hidden Confounding by Progressive Confounder Imputation via Large Language Modelscited by 0
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- 2026Iterative Identification Closure: Amplifying Causal Identifiability in Linear SEMs10 Apr 2026
- 2025Large-Scale Bayesian Causal Discovery with Interventional Data2 Oct 2025
- 2025Mitigating Hidden Confounding by Progressive Confounder Imputation via Large Language Models26 Jun 2025
- 2025ExMAG: Learning of Maximally Ancestral Graphs11 Mar 2025
- 2024Leaning Time-Varying Instruments for Identifying Causal Effects in Time-Series Data26 Nov 2024
- 2023Adaptive Instrument Design for Indirect Experiments5 Dec 2023
- 2023Local Discovery by Partitioning: Polynomial-Time Causal Discovery Around Exposure-Outcome Pairs25 Oct 2023
- 2023Conditional Instrumental Variable Regression with Representation Learning for Causal Inference3 Oct 2023
- 2023Structural restrictions in local causal discovery: identifying direct causes of a target variable29 Jul 2023
- 2022Instrumental Variables in Causal Inference and Machine Learning: A Survey12 Dec 2022
- 2022Data-Driven Causal Effect Estimation Based on Graphical Causal Modelling: A Survey20 Aug 2022
- 2022Discovering Ancestral Instrumental Variables for Causal Inference from Observational Data4 Jun 2022
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