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Regression Discontinuity Methods in Causal Analysis

Regression discontinuity (RD) methods constitute a quasi-experimental approach to causal inference that exploits a predetermined rule linking treatment assignment to a continuous forcing variable. At ...
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Monitoring Public Procurement: Evidence from a Regression Discontinuity Design in Chile

Gerardino, Maria Paula, Stephan Litschig, and Dina D. Pomeranz. "Monitoring Public Procurement: Evidence from a Regression Discontinuity Design in Chile." Working Paper, September 2014. (Latest ...
Harvard Business School

Exploiting Discovered Regression Discontinuities to Debias Conditioned-on-observable Estimators

Jakubowski, Benjamin, Siram Somanchi, Edward McFowland III, and Daniel B. Neill. "Exploiting Discovered Regression Discontinuities to Debias Conditioned-on-observable Estimators." Journal of Machine ...
Nature

Countries influence the trade-off between crop yields and nitrogen pollution

National institutions and policies could provide powerful levers to steer the global food system towards higher agricultural production and lower environmental impact. However, causal evidence of ...