Regression discontinuity designs with unknown discontinuity points: testing and estimation

DOI10.1016/J.JECONOM.2015.06.002zbMATH Open1337.62082OpenAlexW1186539649MaRDI QIDQ496153FDOQ496153

Authors: 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

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zbMATH Keywords

wild bootstrapcross validationspecification testingregression discontinuity designdegenerate \(U\)-statisticdifference kernel estimatornonparametric structural changeunknown discontinuity point

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

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

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