Last data update: 2014.03.03
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R: Dataset used in Lee (2008)
Dataset used in Lee (2008)
Description
Randomized experiments from non-random selection in U.S. House elections
Format
A data frame with 6558 observations and two variables:
- x
Vote at election t-1
- y
Vote at election t
Source
Guido Imbens webpage: http://scholar.harvard.edu/imbens/scholar_software/regression-discontinuity
References
Imbens, Guido and Karthik Kalyanaraman. (2012) 'Optimal Bandwidth Choice for the regression discontinuity estimator,'
Review of Economic Studies (2012) 79, 933-959
Lee, D. (2008) Randomized experiments from non-random selection in U.S. House elections,
Journal of Econometrics, 142, 675-697
Examples
data(house)
rdd_house <- rdd_data(x=x, y=y, data=house, cutpoint=0)
summary(rdd_house)
plot(rdd_house)
Results
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