Introduction to instrumental variables and their application to large-scale assessment data

Introduction to instrumental variables and their application to large-scale assessment data

Abstract In the social sciences, estimating causal effects is particularly difficult. Gold standards are set by randomized experiments in many cases expensive, unenforceable for ethical and practical reasons. Recent research has drawn attention to techniques that under some conditions, could estimat...

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Main Author: Artur Pokropek
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: SpringerOpen 2016-02-01
Series:Large-scale Assessments in Education
Subjects:
Instrumental variables
Large-scale assessment
PISA
Friendship
Causal inference
Online Access:http://link.springer.com/article/10.1186/s40536-016-0018-2

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