Estimation of Intervention Effects with Noncompliance: Alternative Model Specifications

Booil Jo

Journal of Educational and Behavioral Statistics, 2002, vol. 27, issue 4, 385-409

Abstract: This study examines alternative ways of specifying models in the complier average causal effect (CACE) estimation method, where the major interest is in estimating causal effects of treatments for compliers. A fundamental difficulty involved in the CACE estimation method is in dealing with missing compliance information among study participants. Given that, the assumption of the exclusion restriction plays a critical role in separating the distributions of compliers and non-compliers. If no pretreatment covariates are available, assuming the exclusion restriction is unavoidable to obtain unique ML estimates in CACE models, although the assumption can be often unrealistic. One disadvantage of assuming the exclusion restriction is that the CACE estimate can be biased if the assumption is violated. Another disadvantage is that the assumption limits the flexibility of CACE modeling in practice. However, if pretreatment covariates are available, more modeling options other than strictly forcing the exclusion restriction can be considered to establish identifiability of CACE models. This study explores modeling possibilities of CACE estimation within an ML-EM framework in the presence of covariate information.

Keywords: Keywords: assignment effects; CACE; exclusion restriction; missing data; ML-EM; non-compliance; pretreatment covariates (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2002
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DOI: 10.3102/10769986027004385

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