Identifiability of the instrumental variable model with the treatment and outcome missing not at random (opens in new tab)

The instrumental variable model of Imbens and Angrist (1994) and Angrist et al. (1996) identifies the local average treatment effect, also known as the complier average causal effect (CACE). In practice, however, the treatment and outcome are often missing, and when they are missing not at random (MNAR), the CACE is generally not identifiable without further assumptions, because the underlying data distribution itself cannot be recovered. We...