Gerard, François; Rokkanen, Miikka; Rothe, Christoph - In: Quantitative Economics 11 (2020) 3, pp. 839-870
The key assumption in regression discontinuity analysis is that the distribution of potential outcomes varies smoothly with the running variable around the cutoff. In many empirical contexts, however, this assumption is not credible; and the running variable is said to bemanipulatedin this case....
