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Rdrobust: Software for Regression-discontinuity Designs Open
We describe a major upgrade to the Stata (and R) rdrobust package, which provides a wide array of estimation, inference, and falsification methods for the analysis and interpretation of regression-discontinuity designs. The main new featur…
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Manipulation Testing Based on Density Discontinuity Open
In this article, we introduce two community-contributed commands, rddensity and rdbwdensity, that implement automatic manipulation tests based on density discontinuity and are constructed using the results for local-polynomial density esti…
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How Much Does Education Improve Intelligence? A Meta-Analysis Open
Intelligence test scores and educational duration are positively correlated. This correlation could be interpreted in two ways: Students with greater propensity for intelligence go on to complete more education, or a longer education incre…
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A Practical Introduction to Regression Discontinuity Designs Open
In this Element and its accompanying second Element, A Practical Introduction to Regression Discontinuity Designs: Extensions, Matias Cattaneo, Nicolás Idrobo, and Rocıìo Titiunik provide an accessible and practical guide for the analysis …
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Rural Roads and Local Economic Development Open
Nearly one billion people worldwide live in rural areas without access to national paved road networks. We estimate the impacts of India’s $40 billion national rural road construction program using a fuzzy regression discontinuity design a…
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Elite Colleges and Upward Mobility to Top Jobs and Top Incomes Open
This paper asks whether elite colleges help students outside of historically advantaged groups reach top positions in the economy. I combine administrative data on income and leadership teams at publicly traded firms with a regression disc…
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The Effects of Business Accelerators on Venture Performance: Evidence from Start-Up Chile Open
Do business accelerators affect new venture performance? We investigate this question in the context of Start-Up Chile, an ecosystem accelerator. We focus on two treatment conditions typically found in business accelerators: basic services…
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rdrobust: An R Package for Robust Nonparametric Inference in Regression-Discontinuity Designs Open
This article describes the R package rdrobust, which provides data-driven graphical and inference procedures for RD designs.The package includes three main functions: rdrobust, rdbwselect and rdplot.The first function (rdrobust) implements…
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The State of Applied Econometrics: Causality and Policy Evaluation Open
In this paper, we discuss recent developments in econometrics that we view as important for empirical researchers working on policy evaluation questions. We focus on three main areas, in each case, highlighting recommendations for applied …
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For Better or for Worse?: Education and the Prevalence of Domestic Violence in Turkey Open
We exploit a change in the compulsory schooling law in Turkey to estimate the causal effects of education on the prevalence of domestic violence. By adopting a regression discontinuity design, we find that the reform increased women's scho…
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Regression Discontinuity in Time: Considerations for Empirical Applications Open
Recent empirical work in several economic fields, particularly environmental and energy economics, has adapted the regression discontinuity (RD) framework to applications where time is the running variable and treatment begins at a particu…
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Evaluating the Health Impact of Large-Scale Public Policy Changes: Classical and Novel Approaches Open
Large-scale public policy changes are often recommended to improve public health. Despite varying widely—from tobacco taxes to poverty-relief programs—such policies present a common dilemma to public health researchers: how to evaluate the…
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Fairness and Frictions: The Impact of Unequal Raises on Quit Behavior Open
We analyze how separations responded to arbitrary differences in own and peer wages at a large US retailer. Regression-discontinuity estimates imply large causal effects of own-wages on separations, and on quits in particular. However, thi…
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Clicking on Heaven’s Door: The Effect of Immigrant Legalization on Crime Open
We estimate the effect of immigrant legalization on the crime rate of immigrants in Italy by exploiting an ideal regression discontinuity design: fixed quotas of residence permits are available each year, applications must be submitted ele…
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Under the Cover of Darkness: How Ambient Light Influences Criminal Activity Open
We exploit daylight saving time (DST) as an exogenous shock to daylight, using both the discontinuous nature of the policy and the 2007 extension of DST, to consider the impact of light on criminal activity. Regression discontinuity estima…
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Upgrading Education with Technology: Insights from Experimental Research Open
In recent years, there has been widespread interest around the potential for technology to transform learning. As investment in education technology continues to grow, students, parents, and teachers face a seemingly endless array of educa…
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Regression discontinuity designs in healthcare research Open
Clinical decisions are often driven by decision rules premised around specific thresholds. Specific laboratory measurements, dates, or policy eligibility criteria create cut-offs at which people become eligible for certain treatments or he…
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Regression Discontinuity Designs Based on Population Thresholds: Pitfalls and Solutions Open
In many countries, important features of municipal government (such as the electoral system, mayors' salaries, and the number of councillors) depend on whether the municipality is above or below arbitrary population thresholds. Several pap…
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Quasi-experimental study designs series—paper 7: assessing the assumptions Open
Quasi-experimental designs are gaining popularity in epidemiology and health systems research-in particular for the evaluation of health care practice, programs, and policy-because they allow strong causal inferences without randomized con…
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Evaluation of occupational health interventions using a randomized controlled trial: challenges and alternative research designs Open
Occupational health researchers regularly conduct evaluative intervention research for which a randomized controlled trial (RCT) may not be the most appropriate design (eg, effects of policy measures, organizational interventions on work s…
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Say Pays! Shareholder Voice and Firm Performance Open
This article estimates the effects of Say-on-Pay (SoP), a policy that increases shareholder “voice” by providing shareholders with a regular vote on executive pay. We apply a regression discontinuity design to the votes on shareholder-spon…
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Access to 4-Year Public Colleges and Degree Completion Open
Does access to 4-year colleges affect degree completion for students who would otherwise attend 2-year colleges? Admission to Georgia’s 4-year public sector requires minimum SAT scores. Regression discontinuity estimates show that access t…
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Reusing Natural Experiments Open
After a natural experiment is first used, other researchers often reuse the setting, examining different outcome variables. We use simulations based on real data to illustrate the multiple hypothesis testing problem that arises when resear…
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Inference in Regression Discontinuity Designs under Local Randomization Open
We introduce the rdlocrand package, which contains four commands to conduct finite-sample inference in regression discontinuity (RD) designs under a local randomization assumption, following the framework and methods proposed in Cattaneo, …
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Parliamentary Representation and the Normalization of Radical Right Support Open
How do stigmatized political preferences become normalized? I argue that the parliamentary representation of the radical right normalizes radical right support. Radical right politicians breach established social norms. Hence their support…
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The Impact of Incarceration on Recidivism Open
The US prison population stands at 1.43 million persons, with an additional 740,000 persons in local jails. Nearly all will eventually return to society. This review examines the available evidence on how the experience of incarceration is…
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Digitization and Pre-Purchase Information: The Causal and Welfare Impacts of Reviews and Crowd Ratings Open
Digitization has led to many new creative products, straining the capacity of professional critics and consumers. Yet, the digitization of retailing has also delivered new crowd-based sources of pre-purchase information. We compare the rel…
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Segmentary Lineage Organization and Conflict in Sub‐Saharan Africa Open
We test the longstanding hypothesis that ethnic groups organized around “segmentary lineages” are more prone to conflict. Ethnographic accounts suggest that in such societies, which are characterized by strong allegiances to distant relati…
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Does Schooling Affect Women’s Desired Fertility? Evidence From Malawi, Uganda, and Ethiopia Open
Demographic scholarship suggests that schooling plays an important role in transforming fertility preferences in the early stages of fertility decline. However, there is limited evidence on the relationship between schooling and fertility …
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Cognitive and Noncognitive Costs of Day Care at Age 0–2 for Children in Advantaged Families Open
Exploiting admission thresholds to the Bologna daycare system, we show using RDD that one additional daycare month at age 0-2 reduces IQ by 0.5% (4.7% of a s.d.) at age
\n8-14 in a relatively affluent population. The magnitude of this nega…