Regression discontinuity designs with unknown discontinuity points: testing and estimation

DOI10.1016/j.jeconom.2015.06.002zbMath1337.62082OpenAlexW1186539649MaRDI QIDQ496153

Yong-Cai Geng, Sumit K. Garg

Publication date: 18 September 2015

Published in: Journal of Econometrics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jeconom.2015.06.002

zbMATH Keywords

specification testingcross validationwild bootstrapregression discontinuity designdegenerate \(U\)-statisticdifference kernel estimatornonparametric structural changeunknown discontinuity point

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Applications of statistics to economics (62P20) Nonparametric regression and quantile regression (62G08) Density estimation (62G07) Asymptotic properties of nonparametric inference (62G20) Nonparametric statistical resampling methods (62G09)

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