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For example, consider a program that assigns children with a pre-test score below a threshold to some remedial intervention (e.g. asummerreadingprogram). • Compliers are children who participate in the program only if their test score is below the threshold and not otherwise. They comply with their assigned treatment status. • Always-takers are children who manage to receive the intervention regardless (e.g. parents request that they attend the program) • Never-takers are children who do not attend the program even if assigned to it.
Interpretation of τFRD In that case, τFRD gives the average treatment effect for compliers. (shown in Hahn, Todd and Van der Klaauw, 2001, building on insights of Angrist and Imbens, 1994, about LATE estimators).
Page 1 and 2: Applying Regression Discontinuity D
Page 3 and 4: • Many studies implicitly rely on
Page 5 and 6: Assignment to Treatment • Let (Xi
Page 8 and 9: Two Types of Designs • Fuzzy Regr
Page 10: Take the difference, use the fact t
Page 13: Define compliance status • Compli
Page 17 and 18: Comparison of RD Approach with a Ma
Page 19 and 20: Estimation • For sharp design, ne
Page 21 and 22: Boundary bias plimˆµr (c)= c+h c
Page 23 and 24: Estimation under the FRD design Aga
Page 25 and 26: Smoothing parameter selection • F
Page 27 and 28: Assessing the variance of the estim
Page 29 and 30: Should analysis condition on other
Page 31 and 32: RD Examples: Card, D., Dobkin, C.,(
Page 33 and 34: RD Examples: Lalive (2007, J of Eco
Page 39: RD Examples: Jacob, B.A., Lefgren,
Page 46 and 47: Examples: Hahn, J., Todd, P., Van D
Page 52 and 53: RD Examples Estimating the value pa
Page 54 and 55: RD Examples: DiNardo, J., Lee, D.S.
Page 56 and 57: RD Examples: Lee (2007, J of Econom
Page 58 and 59: 3. Examine robustness of the result
Page 60: 4. Robustness can be examined using

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