To cite the ivcheck package in publications, please cite both the package and the underlying paper for the test you used. The package provides a unified R interface to the named tests; the tests themselves are the contribution of the authors below.

Coverdale C (2026). ivcheck: Tests for Instrumental Variable Validity. R package version 0.1.2, https://github.com/charlescoverdale/ivcheck.

Kitagawa, T. (2015). A Test for Instrument Validity. Econometrica 83(5): 2043-2063.<doi:10.3982/ECTA11974>.

Mourifie, I. and Wan, Y. (2017). Testing Local Average Treatment Effect Assumptions. Review of Economics and Statistics 99(2): 305-313.<doi:10.1162/REST_a_00622>.

Frandsen, B. R., Lefgren, L. J., and Leslie, E. C. (2023). Judging Judge Fixed Effects. American Economic Review 113(1): 253-277.<doi:10.1257/aer.20201860>.

Imbens, G. W. and Angrist, J. D. (1994). Identification and Estimation of Local Average Treatment Effects. Econometrica 62(2): 467-475.<doi:10.2307/2951620>.

Corresponding BibTeX entries:

  @Manual{,
    title = {ivcheck: Tests for Instrumental Variable Validity},
    author = {Charles Coverdale},
    year = {2026},
    note = {R package version 0.1.2},
    url = {https://github.com/charlescoverdale/ivcheck},
  }

  @Article{,
    title = {A Test for Instrument Validity},
    author = {Toru Kitagawa},
    journal = {Econometrica},
    year = {2015},
    volume = {83},
    number = {5},
    pages = {2043--2063},
    doi = {10.3982/ECTA11974},
  }

  @Article{,
    title = {Testing Local Average Treatment Effect Assumptions},
    author = {Ismael Mourifie and Yuanyuan Wan},
    journal = {Review of Economics and Statistics},
    year = {2017},
    volume = {99},
    number = {2},
    pages = {305--313},
    doi = {10.1162/REST_a_00622},
  }

  @Article{,
    title = {Judging Judge Fixed Effects},
    author = {Brigham Frandsen and Lars Lefgren and Emily Leslie},
    journal = {American Economic Review},
    year = {2023},
    volume = {113},
    number = {1},
    pages = {253--277},
    doi = {10.1257/aer.20201860},
  }

  @Article{,
    title = {Identification and Estimation of Local Average Treatment
      Effects},
    author = {Guido Imbens and Joshua Angrist},
    journal = {Econometrica},
    year = {1994},
    volume = {62},
    number = {2},
    pages = {467--475},
    doi = {10.2307/2951620},
  }