Regression Discontinuity Designs : A Guide to Practice / Guido Imbens & Thomas Lemieux.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Imbens, Guido, author.

Lemieux, Thomas, author.

Series:

Working Paper Series (National Bureau of Economic Research) ; no. t0337.

NBER working paper series ; no. t0337

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Regression analysis.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (35 pages) : illustrations (black and white).

Place of Publication:

Cambridge, Massachusetts : National Bureau of Economic Research, 2007.

Summary:

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 With the exception of a few unpublished theoretical papers, these methods did not attract much attention in the economics literature until recently.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.

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