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Author:   R. Carter Hill (Louisiana State University, USA) ,  Thomas B. Fomby (Southern Methodist University Dallas, USA) ,  Juan Carlos Escanciano (University of Indiana, USA) ,  Eric Hillebrand (University of Aarhus, Denmark)
Publisher:   Emerald Publishing Limited
Imprint:   Emerald Publishing Limited
Volume:   38
Dimensions:   Width: 15.20cm , Height: 3.20cm , Length: 22.90cm
Weight:   0.826kg
ISBN:  

9781787143906

ISBN 10:   1787143902
Pages:   544
Publication Date:   11 May 2017
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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Table of Contents

Introduction - Matias D. Cattaneo and Juan Carlos Escanciano 1. On Interpreting the Regression Discontinuity Design as a Local Experiment - Jasjeet Sekhon and Rocio Titiunik 2. Identification and Estimation using a Density Discontinuity Approach - Hugo Jales and Zhengfei Yu 3. The Deterrence Effect of Prison: Dynamic Theory and Evidence - David Lee and Justin McCrary 4. An Overview of Geographically Discontinuous Treatment Assignments With an Application to Children’s Health Insurance - Luke Keele, Scott Lorch, Molly Passarella, Dylan Small and Rocio Titiunik 5. External and Internal Validity of a Geographic Quasi-experiment Embedded in a Cluster-randomized Experiment - Sebastian Galiani, Patrick McEwan and Brian Quistorff 6. The Comparative Regression Discontinuity (CRD) Design: An Overview and Demonstration of its Performance Relative to Basic RD and the Randomized Experiment - Yang Tang, Thomas Cook, Yasemin Kisbu-Sakarya, Heinrich Hock and Hanley Chiang 7. Party Bias in Union Representation Elections: Testing for Manipulation in the Regression Discontinuity Design When the Running Variable is Discrete - Brigham Frandsen 8. Testing Stability of Regression Discontinuity Models - Giovanni Cerulli, Yingying Dong, Arthur Lewbel and Alexander Poulsen 9. Regression Kink Design: Theory and Practice - David Card, David Lee, Zhuan Pei and Andrea Weber 10. Regression Discontinuity Designs with Clustered Data - Otavio Bartalotti and Quentin Brummet 11. Bootstrap Confidence Intervals for Sharp Regression Discontinuity Designs - Otavio Bartalotti, Gray Calhoun and Yang He 12. The Devil is in the Tails: Regression Discontinuity Design with Measurement Error in the Assignment Variable - Zhuan Pei and Yi Shen

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Contributors offer perspectives on methodological and practical issues relating to the use of regression discontinuity design in a number of fields. Their topics include identification and estimation using a density discontinuity approach, an overview of geographically discontinuous treatment assignments with an application to children's health insurance, the external and internal validity of a geographic quasi-experiment embedded in a cluster-randomized experiment, party bias in union representation elections: testing for manipulation in the regression discontinuity design when the running variable is discrete, and regression kink design: theory and practice. -- Annotation (c)2017 Ringgold Inc * (protoview.com) *

Contributors offer perspectives on methodological and practical issues relating to the use of regression discontinuity design in a number of fields. Their topics include identification and estimation using a density discontinuity approach, an overview of geographically discontinuous treatment assignments with an application to children's health insurance, the external and internal validity of a geographic quasi-experiment embedded in a cluster-randomized experiment, party bias in union representation elections: testing for manipulation in the regression discontinuity design when the running variable is discrete, and regression kink design: theory and practice. Distributed in North America by Turpin Distribution. -- Annotation (c)2017 Ringgold Inc * (protoview.com) *

Contributors offer perspectives on methodological and practical issues relating to the use of regression discontinuity design in a number of fields. Their topics include identification and estimation using a density discontinuity approach, an overview of geographically discontinuous treatment assignments with an application to children's health insurance, the external and internal validity of a geographic quasi-experiment embedded in a cluster-randomized experiment, party bias in union representation elections: testing for manipulation in the regression discontinuity design when the running variable is discrete, and regression kink design: theory and practice. -- Annotation ©2017 Ringgold Inc * (protoview.com) *

Author Information

Matias D. Cattaneo, Department of Economics and Department of Statistics, University of Michigan Juan Carlos Escanciano, Department of Economics, Indiana University, and Senior Co-Editor of Advances in Econometrics

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