Randomized experiments from non-random selection in U.S. House elections.

This paper establishes the relatively weak conditions under which causal inferences from a regression-discontinuity (RD) analysis can be as credible as those from a randomized experiment, and hence under which the validity of the RD design can be tested by examining whether or not there is a discont...

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Published in:	Journal of Econometrics Vol. 142; no. 2; pp. 675 - 698
Main Author:	Lee, David S.
Format:	Article
Published:	Elsevier Science February 2008
Subjects:	Experimental design United States legislators United States Congressional elections Regression analysis
Online Access:	View this record in EBSCOhost