Princeton UniversityA Practical Introduction to Regression Discontinuity Designs: Extensions, with Matias Cattaneo and Nicolas Idrobo.
Cambridge University Press, 2024.
Publications
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Monographs
A Practical Introduction to Regression Discontinuity Designs: Foundations, with Matias D. Cattaneo and Nicolas Idrobo.
Cambridge University Press, 2020.
Journal Articles
Real-world effectiveness of early language intervention: Evidence from a nationwide rollout of the Nuffield Early Language Intervention (NELI) in England, with Gillian West, Sarah Hearne, Caroline Korell, Mihaela Duta, and Charles Hulme.
American Journal of Speech-Language Pathology, forthcoming.
Randomization Inference for Before-and-After Studies with Multiple Units: An Application to a Criminal Procedure Reform in Uruguay, with Matias Cattaneo and Carlos Diaz.
Journal of the Royal Statistical Society: Series A, forthcoming.
Charismatic Leaders and Democratic Backsliding, with James Hollyer and Marko Klašnja.
Journal of Politics, forthcoming
Uncertainty Quantification in Synthetic Controls with Staggered Treatment Adoption, with Matias D. Cattaneo, Yingjie Feng and Filippo Palomba.
Review of Economics and Statistics, forthcoming.
A Guide to Regression Discontinuity Designs in Medical Applications, with Luke Keele and Matias Cattaneo.
Statistics in Medicine, 42(24): 4484-4513, 2023.
Parties as Disciplinarians: Charisma and Commitment Problems in Programmatic Campaigning, with James Hollyer and Marko Klašnja.
American Journal of Political Science, 66(1): 75-92, 2022.
Regression Discontinuity Designs, with Matias D. Cattaneo.
Annual Review of Economics, 14: 821-851, 2022.
Extrapolating Treatment Effects in Multi-Cutoff Regression Discontinuity Designs, with Matias D. Cattaneo, Luke Keele and Gonzalo Vazquez-Bare.
Journal of the American Statistical Association, 116(536): 1941-1952, 2021.
Prediction Intervals for Synthetic Control Methods, with Matias D. Cattaneo and Yingjie Feng.
Journal of the American Statistical Association, 116(536): 1865-1880, 2021.
Regression Discontinuity Designs Using Covariates, with Sebastian Calonico, Matias D. Cattaneo, and Max H. Farrell.
Review of Economics and Statistics, 101(3): 442-451, 2019.
Geographic Natural Experiments with Interference: The Effect of All-Mail Voting on Turnout in Colorado, with Luke Keele.
CESifo Economic Studies, 64(2): 127-149, 2018.
Legislative Behavior Absent Reelection Incentives: Findings from a Natural Experiment in the Arkansas Senate, with Andrew Feher.
Journal of the Royal Statistical Society: Series A, 181(2): 351-378, 2018.
Differential Registration Bias in Voter File Data: A Sensitivity Analysis Approach, with Brendan Nyhan and Christopher Skovron.
American Journal of Political Science, 61(3): 744-760, 2017.
The Incumbency Curse: Weak Parties, Term Limits, and Unfulfilled Accountability, with Marko Klaŝnja.
American Political Science Review, 111(1): 129-148, 2017.
Paper | Appendix | Replication
Comparing Inference Approaches for RD Designs: A Reexamination of the Effect of Head Start on Child Mortality, with Matias D. Cattaneo and Gonzalo Vazquez-Bare.
Journal of Policy Analysis and Management , 36(3): 643-681, 2017.
Drawing Your Senator From a Jar: Term Length and Legislative Behavior.
Political Science Research and Methods, 4(2): 293-316.
Paper | Apendix | Replication
Understanding Regression Discontinuity Designs as Observational Studies, with Jasjeet Sekhon.
Observational Studies, 2: 174-182, 2016.
Natural Experiments Based on Geography, with Luke Keele.
Political Science Research and Methods, 4(1): 65-95.
Cause or Effect? Turnout in Hispanic Majority-Minority Districts, with Jasjeet Sekhon and John Henderson.
Political Analysis, 24(3): 404-412.
Interpreting Regression Discontinuity Designs with Multiple Cutoffs, with Matias D. Cattaneo, Luke Keele and Gonzalo Vazquez-Bare.
Journal of Politics, 78(4): 1229-1248.
Can Big Data Solve the Fundamental Problem of Causal Inference?.
PS: Political Science & Politics, 48(1): 75-79, 2015.
Enhancing a Geographic Regression Discontinuity Design Through Matching to Estimate the Effect of Ballot Initiatives on Voter Turnout, with Luke Keele and Jose Zubizarreta.
Journal of the Royal Statistical Society: Series A, 178(1): 223-239, 2015.
Geographic Boundaries as Regression Discontinuities, with Luke Keele.
Political Analysis, 23(1): 127-155, 2015.
Using Regression Discontinuity to Uncover the Personal Incumbency Advantage, with Robert S. Erikson.
Quarterly Journal of Political Science, 10(1): 101-119.
Randomization Inference in the Regression Discontinuity Design: An Application to Party Advantages in the U.S. Senate, with Brigham Frandsen and Matias D. Cattaneo.
Journal of Causal Inference, 3(1): 1-24.
Optimal Data-Driven Regression Discontinuity Plots, with Matias D. Cattaneo and and Sebastian Calonico.
Journal of the American Statistical Association, 110(512): 1753-1769.
Robust Nonparametric Confidence Intervals for Regression-Discontinuity Designs, with Sebastian Calonico and Matias D. Cattaneo.
Econometrica, 82(6): 2295-2326, 2014.
When Natural Experiments Are Neither Natural Nor Experiments, with Jasjeet Sekhon.
American Political Science Review, 106(1): 35-57, 2012.
Housing, Health and Happiness, with Matias D. Cattaneo, Sebastian Galiani, Paul Gertler, and Sebastian Martinez.
American Economic Journal: Economic Policy, 1(1): 75-105, 2009.
Changes in the Panamanian Wage Structure: A Quantile Regression Analysis, with Sebastian Galiani.
Economica, 51(1): 3-26, 2005.
Software Articles
scpi: Uncertainty Quantification for Synthetic Control Methods, with Matias D. Cattaneo, Yingjie Feng and Filippo Palomba.
Journal of Statistical Software, 2024.
Analysis of Regression Discontinuity Designs with Multiple Cutoffs or Multiple Scores, with Matias D. Cattaneo and Gonzalo Vazquez-Bare.
Stata Journal, 20(4): 866-891, 2020.
Power Calculations for Regression Discontinuity Designs, with Matias D. Cattaneo and Gonzalo Vazquez-Bare.
Stata Journal, 19(1): 210-245, 2019.
rdrobust: Software for Regression Discontinuity Designs, with Sebastian Calonico, Matias D. Cattaneo and Max H. Farrell.
Stata Journal, 17(2): 372-404, 2017.
Inference in Regression Discontinuity Designs under Local Randomization, with Matias D. Cattaneo and Gonzalo Vazquez-Bare.
Stata Journal, 16(2): 331-367, 2016.
rdrobust: An R Package for Robust Nonparametric Inference in Regression-Discontinuity Designs, with Sebastian Calonico and Matias D. Cattaneo.
R Journal, 7(1): 38-51, 2015.
Robust Data-Driven Inference in the Regression-Discontinuity Design, with Sebastian Calonico and Matias D. Cattaneo.
Stata Journal, 14(4): 909-946, 2014.
Chapters and Others
Covariate Adjustment in Regression Discontinuity Designs, with Luke Keele and Matias Cattaneo.
Handbook of Matching and Weighting in Causal Inference.
Advances in Experimental Political Science, 2021.
The Regression Discontinuity Design, with Matias D. Cattaneo and Gonzalo Vazquez-Bare.
Handbook of Research Methods in Political Science and International Relations, 2020.
On Interpreting the Regression Discontinuity Design as a Local Experiment, with Jasjeet Sekhon.
Regression Discontinuity Designs: Theory and Applications (Advances in Econometrics, Volume 38), M. D. Cattaneo and J. C. Escanciano, editors, 1-28. Emerald Publishing Limited, 2017.
An Overview of Geographically Discontinuous Treatment Assignments With an Application to Children’s Health Insurance, with Luke Keele, Scott Lorchb, Molly Passarella, and Dylan Small.
Regression Discontinuity Designs: Theory and Applications (Advances in Econometrics, Volume 38), M. D. Cattaneo and J. C. Escanciano, editors, 147-194. Emerald Publishing Limited, 2017.
Newsletter of the APSA Experimental Section, 2012.
Encyclopedia of Research Design, SAGE Publications, 2010.