Regression Discontinuity Designs in Economics

By David S. Lee, Thomas Lemieux. 2010

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The State of Applied Econometrics - Causality and Policy Evaluation (2016, neutral): “Another way to assess robustness is to use the partial indentification or bounds literature originating with Manski [1990]. See Tamer [2010] for a recent review. In combination with reporting estimates based on the preferred specification that may lead to point identification, it may be useful to co”
The Effect of Education on Adult Health and Mortality: Evidence from Britain. NBER Working Paper No. 16013. (2010, positive): “As discussed by Lee & Lemieux (2009); Imbens & Lemieux (2008), this approach can be viewed as generating estimates that are more local to the threshold.”
Publicity requirements in public procurement: Evidence from a regression discontinuity design ☆ (2012, neutral): “1 (in Appendix) shows (1) estimates obtained considering 5 different polynomial specifications; and (2) results of the Lee and Lemieux (2010, pg. 326) polynomial selection test. Our evidence suggests that (1) results are not sensitive to the choice of a specific order of the polynomial; and (2) the ”
Impacts of a prekindergarten program on children's mathematics, language, literacy, executive function, and emotional skills. (2013, positive): “We followed best practices as described in the RD literature and conducted extensive sensitivity analyses to confirm the robustness of our findings (Imbens & Lemieux, 2008; Lee & Lemieux, 2010).”
A credible approach for measuring inframarginal participation in energy efficiency programs (2014, neutral): “At each of these thresholds, we use a standard RD estimating equation (Lee and Lemieux, 2010): where 1[ Participate ] i is an indicator variable equal to one if a household participated in the program and zero otherwise.”
Does Extending Unemployment Benefits Improve Job Quality? (2017, positive): “Following Lee and Lemieux (2010), all figures contain both the true underlying functions and several realizations of η.”
Agricultural Extension and Technology Adoption for Food Security: Evidence from Uganda (2018, positive): “As suggested by Lee & Lemieux (2010), we test the joint significance of all the discontinuities at the threshold in a Seemingly Unrelated Regression (SUR) framework, where each equation regresses one covariate on a threshold dummy, a constant and a fourth order polynomial of distance to the nearest…”
A Practical Guide to Regression Discontinuity (2012, neutral): “In contrast, as the sample size goes to infinity in the nonparametric model, the optimal bandwidth will shrink, and the observations used in a nonparametric regression will get infinitely close to the cut-point, causing the amount of bias to approach zero as well (Lee and Lemieux, 2010).”
The Effects of Test-based Retention on Student Outcomes over Time: Regression Discontinuity Evidence from Florida (2017, neutral): “We note, however, that Matsudaira’s (2008) regression discontinuity study of mandatory summer school for low-achieving grade 3-5 students in a large urban district finds average effects of 0.”
The Empire is Dead, Long Live the Empire! Long-Run Persistence of Trust and Corruption in the Bureaucracy (2016, neutral): “To test this empirically, this section provides a number of falsification tests, several of which are derived from regression discontinuity analysis (Imbens and Lemieux, 2008; Lee and Lemieux, 2010).”