Identifying the effect of changing the policy threshold in regression discontinuity models

Review of Economics and Statistics

Volumn 97, Issue 5, 2015, Pages 1081-1092

  Dong, Yingying ^a   Lewbel, Arthur ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b BOSTON COLLEGE   (United States)

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EID: 84949743778     PISSN: 00346535     EISSN: 15309142     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1162/REST_a_00510     Document Type: Article

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