Distinguishing Providing Public Services from Receiving Government Funding as Factors in Nonprofit Advocacy

VOLUNTAS: International Journal of Voluntary and Nonprofit Organizations - This study innovates by introducing a conceptual distinction between the provision of public services and the receipt of...     

Inference on local average treatment effects for misclassified treatment

We develop point-identification for the local average treatment effect when the binary treatment contains a measurement error. The standard instrumental variable estimator is inconsistent for the parameter since the measurement error is nonclassical by construction. We correct the problem by identifying the distribution of the measurement error based on the use of an exogenous variable that can even be a binary covariate. The moment conditions derived from the identification lead to generalized method of moments estimation with asymptotically valid inferences. Monte Carlo simulations and an empirical illustration demonstrate the usefulness of the proposed procedure.