Guido Imbens, Stefan Wager, OPTIMIZED REGRESSION DISCONTINUITY DESIGNS, The Review of Economics and Statistics, Vol. 101, No. 2 (May 2019), pp. 264-278 ...

This paper proposes consistent testing methods for examining the effect of a policy treatment on the whole distribution of a response outcome within the setting of a regression discontinuity design.

Fifth, the regression discontinuity design assumed that the effect of an abrupt change from child to adult status on opioid prescriptions and opioid-related adverse events was mediated only ...

We quantify the effect of mask mandates in the United States. Our regression discontinuity design exploits county-level variation in COVID-19 cases, hospital admissions, and deaths across the border ...

For identification, we exploit a scoring rule of the national auditing agency, which allows for regression discontinuity analysis. Our preliminary results show that the audits seem to lead to a ...

Regression discontinuity (RD) designs are widely used to estimate causal effects in the absence of a randomized experiment. However, standard approaches to RD analysis face two significant limitations ...

Statistical Methods We used the regression discontinuity design to evaluate the impact of home-based hypertension screening on blood pressure change over time.