Recent Advancements in Applied Instrumental Variable Methods

The thirteenth “One World webinar” organized by YoungStatS took place on June 29th, 2022. Instrumental variables (IV) is one of most important and widespread research designs in economics and statistics, as it can identify causal effects in the presence of unobserved confounding. In this webinar, selected econometricians presented their recent work on applied IV methods. Speakers: - Kirill Borusyak, University College London, United Kingdom: on shift-share IV and other composite instruments - Paul Goldsmith-Pinkham, Yale University, USA: on judge/examiner instruments - Stephen C. Coussens, Columbia University, USA: on efficient estimation from compliance weighting - Alexander Torgovitsky, University of Chicago, USA: on when two-stage least squares estimates local average treatment effects Discussant: Peter Hull, Brown University, USA The webinar is part of YoungStatS project of the Young Statisticians Europe initiative (FENStatS) supported by the Bernoulli Society for Mathematical Statistics and Probability and the Institute of Mathematical Statistics (IMS). For more information, please visit our YoungStatS website, https://youngstats.github.io/.