RD Tutorial (2021, NBER Summer Institute Methods Lectures)

This work was supported in part by the National Science Foundation through grant SES-2019432.

Website

https://rdpackages.github.io/replication

Empirical Application: Head Start Data

• Source: Ludwig and Miller (2007): Does Head Start Improve Children’s Life Chances? Evidence from a Regression Discontinuity Design, Quarterly Journal of Economics 122(1): 159-208.

• Python implementation: csv | main

• R implementation: csv | main

• Stata implementation: dta | main

Reference

• Slides: pdf.

• Video: https://www.nber.org/conferences/si-2021-methods-lecture-causal-inference-using-synthetic-controls-and-regression-discontinuity