Regression discontinuity designs
Subtitle: a guide to practice
By: Guido Imbens, Thomas Lemieux
Contributors: Lemieux,Thomas; National Bureau of Economic Research
Series: NBER working paper series -- working paper 13039; Working paper series (National Bureau of Economic Research : Online) -- working paper no. 13039.
Publisher: National Bureau of Economic Research
Published: 2007
Place of publication: Cambridge, MA
Language: eng
Format: [electronic resource] :
Description: "In Regression Discontinuity (RD) designs for evaluating causal effects of interventions, assignment to a treatment is determined at least partly by the value of an observed covariate lying on either side of a fixed threshold.  These designs were first introduced in the evaluation literature by Thistlewaite and Campbell (1960).  With the exception of a few unpublished theoretical papers, these methods did not attract much attention in the economics literature until recently.  Starting in the late 1990s, there has been a large number of studies in economics applying and extending RD methods.  In this paper we review some of the practical and theoretical issues involved in the implementation of RD methods"--National Bureau of Economic Research web site.
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