Testing the Accuracy of Regression Discontinuity Analysis Using Experimental Benchmarks

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The Statistics of Causal Inference: A View from Political Methodology (2015, background): “by recovering experimental benchmarks (Cook, Shadish and Wong 2008; Green et al. 2009).”
Do Conditional Cash Transfers Affect Electoral Behavior? Evidence from a Randomized Experiment in Mexico (2013, background): “While expanding the interval around the eligibility threshold would increase precision, it would also increase the probability of bias (Green et al. 2009).”
Evidence on the deleterious impact of sustained use of polynomial regression on causal inference (2015, methodology): “Our message is also consistent with that of Green et al. (2009), who recommend comparing observational studies with controlled experiments where possible.”