Optimal bandwidth choice for the regression discontinuity estimator

Review of Economic Studies

Volumn 79, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 933-959

  Imbens, Gguido ^a   Kalyanaraman, Karthik ^b  

^a HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Cross validation; Local linear regression; Optimal bandwidth selection; Regression discontinuity designs

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHM; DATA SET; ECONOMIC ANALYSIS; ESTIMATION METHOD; OPTIMIZATION; REGRESSION ANALYSIS;

EID: 84865193016     PISSN: 00346527     EISSN: 1467937X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/restud/rdr043     Document Type: Article

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