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Marginal Treatment Effects and Monotonicity

Henrik Sigstad

arXiv 4 Apr 2024 · Econometrics · 1 citations (OpenAlex)

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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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