Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/130051 
Year of Publication: 
2015
Series/Report no.: 
cemmap working paper No. CWP42/15
Publisher: 
Centre for Microdata Methods and Practice (cemmap), London
Abstract: 
A new bandwidth selection rule that uses different bandwidths for the local linear regression estimators on the left and the right of the cut-off point is proposed for the sharp regression discontinuity estimator of the mean program impact at the cut-off point. The asymptotic mean squared error of the estimator using the proposed bandwidth selection rule is shown to be smaller than other bandwidth selection rules proposed in the literature. An extensive simulation study shows that the proposed method's performances for the samples sizes 500, 2000, and 5000 closely match the theoretical predictions.
Subjects: 
Bandwidth selection
local linear regression
regression discontinuity design
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Document Type: 
Working Paper

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