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Addressing Potential Issues with using Age‐Related Cutoffs • Differential entrance and attrition time in TR and CO groups – Because RD study lacks an initial defined sample, cannot assess attrition and selection effects – The issue then is: Are there compositional differences between children who make it to the fall of their kindergarten year (treatment group) and children who are just starting pre‐K (control group) • Particularly troubling concern because it could introduce serious bias in the design and make the approach invalid – Prompting some critics to ask, Is this an RD design at all?
IS Wong et al. a Fallible RD or Institutional Cohort Design? Fallible RD Institutional Cohort Design Children’s birthdates and state cutoffs are a mostly deterministic mechanism for treatment assignment for the subpopulation of units near the cutoff, but should probe for selection effects. The RD focuses on the comparability of units at the cutoff Leads the researcher to look for discontinuities in potential outcomes at the cutoff Assume that children’s birthdates and state cutoffs are not a deterministic mechanism for treatment assignment, so we should regard this design as an institutional cohort design approach. An institutional cohort design focuses on the comparability of all 5‐year‐olds in kindergarten versus all 4‐year‐old cohorts in pre‐K Leads the researcher to consider matching methods between cohorts to improve internal validity (will address later) …
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Regression‐Discontinuity Design D
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Design Overview Design Examples Vis
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Real Examples of RD Reading First b
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RDD Visual Depiction Comparison Tre
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Two Rationales for RDD 1. Selection
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Two Rationales for RDD 1. Selection
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1. Overrides to the cutoff: Sharp,
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Fuzzy RD Designs • Requires a dis
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Requirements for Estimating Treatme
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Implementation Threats to RD Design
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Example: AYP Data from Texas Densit
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What to do? • This is a big probl
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Analytic Threats to RD Design: Miss
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Nonlinearities in Functional Form
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Here we see a discontinuity between
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Functional Form: Interactions • S
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If we superimpose the regression li
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Here we see an example where the tr
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Adding Nonlinear Terms to the Model
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Adding Nonlinear and Interaction Te
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Analyzing RDs with Multiple Cutoffs
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Examples • Black, Galdo, and Smit
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Issue 2: To pool or not pool across
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Pooling is Already Common in Social
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What is Special about Pooling RD Es
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Estimating Treatment Effects across
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Estimating Treatment Effects across
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Generalizing Across Multiple Assign
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Multivariate RDD with Two Assignmen
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Recent Education Examples of RDDs w
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Frontier‐specific Effect (τ R )
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Requirements for a valid Multivaria
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Frontier Approach Estimates the dis
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Univariate Approach Addresses dimen
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Monte Carlo Study Wong, V., Steiner
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Implications for Practice • Which
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