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 -- no. 13039.; Working paper series (National Bureau of Economic Research) -- working paper no. 13039.
Publisher: National Bureau of Economic Research
Published: 2007
Place of publication: Cambridge, Mass
Language: eng
Number of pages: 34
Subjects: Regression analysis; Economics -- Statistical methods
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 With the exception of a few unpublished theoretical papers, these methods did not attract much attention in the economics literature until recently.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.
Notes: "April 2007."

Includes bibliographical references (p. 31-34).

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