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"The Power Asymmetry in Fuzzy Regression Discontinuity Designs"

Really happy to see more work on statistical power considerations in RDDs.

www.nber.org/papers/w33972

The thing is this comes from an otherwise compelling paper. But the evidence base seems ... thin.

I won't put the paper on blast. But the Gelman Dip is a general pattern I think #RDDers should be aware of.

#RDDers: check it out.

rd2d: Causal Inference in Boundary Discontinuity Designs

"This article introduces the R package rd2d, which implements and extends the...results developed in Cattaneo et al. (2025) for boundary discontinuity designs [like geographic RDDs]"

arxiv.org/abs/2505.07989

#RDDers check it out.

Regression Discontinuity Design with Distribution-Valued Outcomes

"This article introduces Regression Discontinuity Design (RDD) with Distribution-Valued Outcomes (R3D), extending the standard RDD framework to settings where the outcome is a distribution rather than a scalar"

#RDDers: check it out.

Flexible Covariate Adjustments in Regression Discontinuity Designs

"In this paper, we propose a novel class of estimators that use such covariate information more efficiently than existing methods and can accommodate many covariates."

t.co/v0g2D5q8Zw

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"A Partial Linear Estimator for Small Study Regression Discontinuity Designs"

RDDs can lack statistical power.

Standard approaches focus on large N scenarios.

This paper develops a partial linear estimator for low power RDDs. This estimator outperforms leading estimators.

#RDDers: check it out.

"Heterogeneous Treatment Effects in Regression Discontinuity Designs"

arxiv.org/abs/2503.13696

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Donut Regression Discontinuity Designs

"While the donut approach is very popular in empirical practice, it is generally carried out in a heuristic fashion without much supporting statistical theory."

www.christophrothe.net/papers/donut...

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"When Can We Trust Regression Discontinuity Design Estimates from Close Elections? Evidence from Experimental Benchmarks"

rb.gy/t0vbqo