Local average treatment effect
ID: local-average-treatment-effect
Local Average Treatment Effect (LATE) is a concept from causal inference and econometrics that estimates the effect of a treatment or intervention on a specific subset of a population, particularly when the treatment is not applied randomly. LATE is particularly useful in situations where treatment assignment is based on an instrumental variable—a variable that affects treatment assignment but does not directly affect the outcome, except through treatment.
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