In this Element and its accompanying second Element, A Practical Introduction to Regression Discontinuity Designs: Extensions, Matias Cattaneo, Nicolás Idrobo, and Roc?ìo 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 second Element, the authors discuss practical and conceptual extensions to this basic RD setup.
ISBN: | 9781108710206 |
Publication date: | 13th February 2020 |
Author: | Matias D. (Princeton University, New Jersey) Cattaneo, Nicolás (University of Pennsylvania) Idrobo, Rocío (Princeton Titiunik |
Publisher: | Cambridge University Press |
Format: | Paperback |
Pagination: | 120 pages |
Series: | Elements in Quantitative and Computational Methods for the Social Sciences |
Genres: |
Coding theory and cryptology Social research and statistics Econometrics and economic statistics |