A Practical Guide to Regression Discontinuity

Author(s)
Jacob, R. et al.
Publication language
English
Pages
100pp
Date published
01 Jul 2012
Type
Tools, guidelines and methodologies
Keywords
Accountability and Participation, Research methodology, Targeting, Identification and Profiling
Organisations
MDRC

The paper is intended to serve as a practitioners’ guide to implementing regression discontinuity designs. It seeks to explain things in easy-to-understand language and to offer best practices and general guidance to those attempting an RD analysis. In addition, the guide illustrates the various techniques available to researchers and explores their strengths and weaknesses using a simulated dataset.