Dong, Yingying - Department of Economics, University of California-Irvine - 2011
Regression Discontinuity (RD) models identify local treatment effects by associating a discrete change in the mean … paper shows that it is possible to identify the RD model treatment effect without a discontinuity. In particular …. Estimators are proposed that can be applied in the presence or absence of a discontinuity, by exploiting either a jump, or a kink …