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Approximate permutation tests and induced order statistics in the regression discontinuity design

Ivan Canay and Vishal Kamat
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Vishal Kamat: Institute for Fiscal Studies and Toulouse School of Economics

No CWP27/15, CeMMAP working papers from Centre for Microdata Methods and Practice, Institute for Fiscal Studies

Abstract: This paper proposes an asymptotically valid permutation test for a testable implication of the identi?cation assumption in the regression discontinuity design (RDD). Here, by testable implication, we mean the requirement that the distribution of observed baseline covariates should not change discontinuously at the threshold of the so-called running variable. This contrasts to the common practice of testing the weaker implication of continuity of the means of the covariates at the threshold. When testing our null hypothesis using observations that are “close” to the threshold, the standard requirement for the ?nite sample validity of a permutation does not necessarily hold. We therefore propose an asymptotic framework where there is a ?xed number of closest observations to the threshold with the sample size going to in?nity, and propose a permutation test based on the so-called induced order statistics that controls the limiting rejection probability under the null hypothesis. In a simulation study, we ?nd that the new test controls size remarkably well in most designs. Finally, we use our test to evaluate the validity of the design in Lee (2008), a well-known application of the RDD to study incumbency advantage.

Date: 2015-06-22
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