This repository has the LaTeX and R source code for the paper, "Bootstrap Confidence Intervals for Sharp Regression Discontinuity Designs with the Uniform Kernel," by Otávio Bartalotti, Gray Calhoun, and Yang He.
The datasets in R/LM2007data were originally downloaded from Doug
Miller's website,
http://faculty.econ.ucdavis.edu/faculty/dlmiller/statafiles and
were used for the paper,
- Ludwig, Jens and Douglas L. Miller. 2007. “Does Head Start Improve Children’s Life Chances? Evidence from a Regression Discontinuity Design.” Quarterly Journal of Economics 122 (1):159– 208.
Researchers interested in using the data for their own work should get it from there, since it is far more likely to be complete and current than ours.
The R script R/run_everything.R runs all of the R code necessary for
the simulations and empirical exercise presented in the paper. It must
be run from the R subdirectory and it will call all of the other
scripts in that directory.
You can generate the pdf by calling pdflatex and bibtex on the
file main_paper.tex repeatedly as usual.
Please contact the authors if you have questions or find errors and bugs:
- Otávio Bartalotti: bartalot@iastate.ed
- Gray Calhoun: gcalhoun@iastate.edu
- Yang He: yanghe@iastate.edu
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