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This paper demonstrates that the identifying content of instrument monotonicity presents itself in features of the joint distribution of potential outcomes. In the context of a model with a binary outcome, a binary treatment, and an exogenous binary instrument, I derive identified sets for the distribution of potential outcomes with and without instrument monotonicity. Comparing the two identified sets, I provide necessary and sufficient conditions on the distribution of the data under which the former identified set can be a strict subset of the latter. 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