Frandsen, Brigham R.; Frölich, Markus; Melly, Blaise - In: Journal of Econometrics 168 (2012) 2, pp. 382-395
We introduce a nonparametric estimator for local quantile treatment effects in the regression discontinuity (RD) design. The procedure uses local distribution regression to estimate the marginal distributions of the potential outcomes. We illustrate the procedure through Monte Carlo simulations...