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Noncompliance in randomized control trials without exclusion restrictions

General Economics 2021-06-03 v5 Economics

Abstract

This study proposes a method to identify treatment effects without exclusion restrictions in randomized experiments with noncompliance. Exploiting a baseline survey commonly available in randomized experiments, I decompose the intention-to-treat effects conditional on the endogenous treatment status. I then identify these parameters to understand the effects of the assignment and treatment. The key assumption is that a baseline variable maintains rank orders similar to the control outcome. I also reveal that the change-in-changes strategy may work without repeated outcomes. Finally, I propose a new estimator that flexibly incorporates covariates and demonstrate its properties using two experimental studies.

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@article{arxiv.1910.03204,
  title  = {Noncompliance in randomized control trials without exclusion restrictions},
  author = {Masayuki Sawada},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1910.03204},
  year   = {2021}
}

Comments

The first version of this paper has been circulated on the author's website, https://masayukisawada.com, as the Job Market paper and the dissertation chapter

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