eprintid: 10177886 rev_number: 10 eprint_status: archive userid: 699 dir: disk0/10/17/78/86 datestamp: 2023-09-29 12:15:18 lastmod: 2024-02-04 16:15:09 status_changed: 2023-09-29 12:15:18 type: article metadata_visibility: show sword_depositor: 699 creators_name: Sun, Liyang creators_name: Singh, Rahul title: Double robustness for complier parameters and a semi-parametric test for complier characteristics ispublished: inpress divisions: UCL divisions: B03 divisions: C03 divisions: F24 keywords: Semiparametric and Nonparametric Methods, Instrumental Variables (IV) Estimation, Neural Networks and Related Topics note: This version is the author accepted manuscript. For information on re-use, please refer to the publisher’s terms and conditions. abstract: We propose a semi-parametric test to evaluate (a) whether different instruments induce subpopulations of compliers with the same observable characteristics, on average; and (b) whether compliers have observable characteristics that are the same as the full population, treated subpopulation, or untreated subpopulation, on average. The test is a flexible robustness check for the external validity of instruments. To justify the test, we characterise the doubly robust moment for Abadie’s class of complier parameters, and we analyse a machine learning update to weighting that we call the automatic weight. We use the test to reinterpret Angrist and Evans' different local average treatment effect estimates obtained using different instrumental variables. date: 2023-10-09 date_type: published publisher: Wiley-Blackwell official_url: https://doi.org/10.1093/ectj/utad019 full_text_type: other language: eng verified: verified_manual elements_id: 2092191 doi: 10.1093/ectj/utad019 lyricists_name: Sun, Liyang lyricists_id: LSUNB23 actors_name: Sun, Liyang actors_id: LSUNB23 actors_role: owner funding_acknowledgements: R305D200010 [Institute of Education Sciences, U.S. Department of Education]; [Ayudas Juan de la Cierva Formacion] full_text_status: restricted publication: Econometrics Journal article_number: utad019 issn: 1368-4221 citation: Sun, Liyang; Singh, Rahul; (2023) Double robustness for complier parameters and a semi-parametric test for complier characteristics. Econometrics Journal , Article utad019. 10.1093/ectj/utad019 <https://doi.org/10.1093/ectj%2Futad019>. (In press). document_url: https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10177886/1/kappa%20paper.pdf