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A Practical Introduction to Regression Discontinuity Designs: Foundations

Matias D. Cattaneo, Nicolas Idrobo, Rocio Titiunik

arXiv 21 Nov 2019 · Statistics — Methodology · 60 citations (OpenAlex)

arXiv:1911.09511 · PDF · DOI · OpenAlex · Extracted main text

Abstract

In this Element and its accompanying Element, Matias D. Cattaneo, Nicolas Idrobo, and Rocio Titiunik provide an accessible and practical guide for the analysis and interpretation of Regression Discontinuity (RD) designs that encourages the use of a common set of practices and facilitates the accumulation of RD-based empirical evidence. In this Element, the authors discuss the foundations of the canonical Sharp RD design, which has the following features: (i) the score is continuously distributed and has only one dimension, (ii) there is only one cutoff, and (iii) compliance with the treatment assignment is perfect. In the accompanying Element, the authors discuss practical and conceptual extensions to the basic RD setup.

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1Cattaneo, Idrobo, and Titiunik Cattaneo, M. D., N. Idrobo, and R. Titiunik self1.00076100%
2Meyersson (2014) Islamic Rule and the Empowerment of the Poor and Pious1.00053100%
3Cattaneo and Escanciano (2017) Regression Discontinuity Designs: Theory and Applications (Advances in Econometrics, volume 38)0.84333100%
4Lee (2008) Randomized Experiments from Non-random Selection in U.S. House Elections0.81142100%
5Cattaneo, Titiunik, and Vazquez-Bare (2017) Comparing Inference Approaches for RD Designs: A Reexamination of the Effect of Head Start on Child Mortality0.73732100%
6Abadie and Cattaneo (2018) Econometric Methods for Program Evaluation0.64422100%
7Calonico, Cattaneo, Farrell, and Titiunik (2017) rdrobust: Software for Regression Discontinuity Designs0.64422100%
8Cattaneo, Frandsen, and Titiunik (2015) Randomization Inference in the Regression Discontinuity Design: An Application to Party Advantages in the U.S. Senate self0.64422100%
9Cattaneo, Jansson, and Ma (2018) Manipulation Testing based on Density Discontinuity0.64422100%
10Hahn, Todd, and van der Klaauw (2001) Identification and Estimation of Treatment Effects with a Regression-Discontinuity Design0.64422100%

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