Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/64733 
Year of Publication: 
2010
Series/Report no.: 
cemmap working paper No. CWP08/10
Publisher: 
Centre for Microdata Methods and Practice (cemmap), London
Abstract: 
This paper compares the economic questions addressed by instrumental variables estimators with those addressed by structural approaches. We discuss Marschak's Maxim: estimators should be selected on the basis of their ability to answer well-posed economic problems with minimal assumptions. A key identifying assumption that allows structural methods to be more informative than IV can be tested with data and does not have to be imposed.
Subjects: 
Instrumental Variables
Structural Approaches
Marschak's Maxim
JEL: 
C31
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Document Type: 
Working Paper

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