Correct LATE indexing and the Chapter 9 OLS benchmark - #486
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Summary
Why this matters
The notebook previously used ATE for three different quantities: the randomized effect of assignment, a confounded comparison by treatment receipt, and the Wald ratio. They are not the same estimand. Random assignment identifies the ITT; the observed receipt contrast is noncausal here; and under joint independence, exclusion, a first stage, and monotonicity, the Wald ratio identifies the average treatment effect for compliers, or LATE, rather than the population ATE. Monotonicity rules out defiers, while the instrument leaves treatment unchanged for always- and never-takers.
The notebook also defines its naive benchmark as E[Y | push delivered = 1] - E[Y | push delivered = 0], but the code additionally conditioned on push assignment. Because assignment is the instrument, that regression answered a different question and produced the 27.60 coefficient used by the prose. The corrected binary-treatment regression is exactly the observed delivered-versus-undelivered difference in means: 13.931. The 10.159 value discussed in #393 compares selected assignment and treatment cells rather than the unadjusted receipt groups.
Validation
The full build retains one unrelated pre-existing Chapter 21 lexer warning.
Closes #351
Closes #381
Closes #387
Closes #393