An expanding number of methodological resources, reviews, and commentaries both
highlight endogeneity as a threat to causal claims in management research and note that …

Program evaluation methods are widely applied in economics to assess the effects of policy
interventions and other treatments of interest. In this article, we describe the main …

In this Element and its accompanying second Element, A Practical Introduction to
Regression Discontinuity Designs: Extensions, Matias Cattaneo, Nicolás Idrobo, and Rocıìo …

The most remarkable global climate agreement to date, the Paris Agreement of 2015
requires all countries to set emissions-reduction commitments. However, experts say that the …

Politician characteristic regression discontinuity (PCRD) designs leveraging close elections
are widely used to isolate effects of an elected politician characteristic on downstream …

In this paper, we discuss recent developments in econometrics that we view as important for
empirical researchers working on policy evaluation questions. We focus on three main …

Recent empirical work in several economic fields, particularly environmental and energy
economics, has adapted the regression discontinuity (RD) framework to applications where …

Modern empirical work in regression discontinuity (RD) designs often employs local
polynomial estimation and inference with a mean square error (MSE) optimal bandwidth …

This article investigates how the success of radical right parties affects the policy positions of
mainstream parties. We do this using a regression discontinuity approach that allows us to …

We study regression discontinuity designs when covariates are included in the estimation.
We examine local polynomial estimators that include discrete or continuous covariates in an …