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The problem is compounded when some instruments violate the exclusion restriction, as is common in certain empirical contexts such as those using genetic variants as instrumental variables. We propose a clustering-based plurality framework for instrumental variable estimation that jointly addresses instrument heterogeneity and invalid instruments. Rather than imposing a single common causal parameter, our approach groups instruments according to similarity in first-stage and applies a plurality rule on subgroups with similar reduced-form to identify locally valid subsets. This yields a collection of margin-specific local average treatment effects instead of a single pooled estimate. We extend plurality-based identification to settings with non-mutually exclusive instruments, such as Mendelian Randomization designs where all individuals are exposed to all genetic variants. We illustrate the method in a two-sample Mendelian Randomization analysis of the causal effect of educational attainment on smoking participation. Our results confirm a negative causal effect of education on smoking that remains robust under pleiotropy-robust estimators, while revealing substantial heterogeneity across instrument-defined margins that is masked by pooled IV approaches. The framework provides a unified way to interpret and validate high-dimensional instruments in the presence of both treatment effect heterogeneity and potential violations of exclusion.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Language<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>English<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This is a free seminar. 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