Handle with care: a sociologist’s guide to causal inference with instrumental variables

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• What: The authors provide a practical checklist to show how IV despite its fragility can still be useful when handled with care. In many cases-for instance, studying the effect of incarceration on future employment- the authors seek causal evidence where randomized controlled trials would be impractical or unethical. The authors provide concrete guidance-in the form of a checklist-on how to improve the use of IV. Compared with Morgan and Winship , the review places more emphasis on how IV analyses are reported and conducted in practice, and the authors highlight more recently developed diagnostics and . . .
  

   

  

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