Cattaneo, Matias D.; Frandsen, Brigham R.; Titiunik, Rocío - In: Journal of Causal Inference 3 (2015) 1, pp. 1-24
Abstract In the Regression Discontinuity (RD) design, units are assigned a treatment based on whether their value of an observed covariate is above or below a fixed cutoff. Under the assumption that the distribution of potential confounders changes continuously around the cutoff, the...