"Understanding Instrumental Variables

in Models with Essential Heterogeneity"

by James J. Heckman, Sergio Urzua and Edward Vytlacil

Files available at this website:

1. Web appendix (pdf)

2. Documentation on Estimation Techniques (pdf)

3. Users guide to MTE 1.0 (pdf)

4. The executable file MTE.exe (NOTE: Trial version. Comments welcome!)

5. The file data_5000.out

6. The file Init_posted.txt

7. Background reading: Yitzhaki, Shlomo. (1989) "On Using Linear Regression in Welfare Economics," Working paper No. 217, Department of Economics, Hebrew University.
   

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