Getting away from the cutoff in regression discontinuity designs

Filippo Palomba ()
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Filippo Palomba: Princeton University

Stata Journal, 2024, vol. 24, issue 3, 371-401

Abstract: Regression discontinuity (RD) designs are highly popular in economic research because of their strong internal validity and straightforward intuition. While RD estimates are local in nature, several recent articles propose methods that generalize RD estimates to units outside a small neighborhood of the cutoff. In this article, I introduce the getaway package, which implements the method proposed by Angrist and Rokkanen (2015, Journal of the American Statistical As- sociation 110: 1331–1344) to extrapolate treatment-effect estimates “away from the cutoff”, relying on a classical unconfoundedness condition. Additionally, the package features a data-driven algorithm designed to identify a set of covariates that fulfills the unconfoundedness assumption. It also incorporates a toolkit in- tended for testing and visualization purposes.

Keywords: getaway; ciasearch; ciatest; ciares; ciacs; getawayplot; regression discontinuity designs; treatment effects (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2024
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DOI: 10.1177/1536867X241276108

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