README.md

Cattaneo, Titiunik and Vazquez-Bare (2017, JPAM)

This work was supported in part by the National Science Foundation through grants SES-1357561 and SES-1459931.

Website

https://rdpackages.github.io/replication

Empirical Application: Head Start Data

• Source: Ludwig and Miller (2007): Does Head Start Improve Children’s Life Chances? Evidence from a Regression Discontinuity Design, Quarterly Journal of Economics 122(1): 159-208.

• Dataset: csv | dta

• Python implementation: main | appendix

• R implementation: main | appendix

• Stata implementation: main | appendix

Reference

• Cattaneo, Titiunik and Vazquez-Bare (2017): Comparing Inference Approaches for RD Designs: A Reexamination of the Effect of Head Start on Child Mortality.
  Journal of Policy Analysis and Management 36(3): 643-681.