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Fuzzy difference in discontinuities

Título de la revista: APPLIED ECONOMICS LETTERS
ISSN: 1350-4851
Volumen: 27
Número: 19
Páginas: 1552 - 1555
Fecha de publicación: 2020
Resumen:
This paper discusses the conditions needed to estimate the local average treatment effect (LATE) of a policy using the 'difference-in-discontinuities' method while considering imperfect compliance. I show that simple and plausible assumptions about the participation and effects of the confounding existing policies allow the identification of the causal effect of a new policy. Identification is feasible even when information about the participation in other confounding policies is not available.