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most citedIncremental Propensity Score Effects for Criminology: An Application Assessing the Relationship Between Homelessness, Behavioral Health Problems, and Recidivism

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stat.ME2018

The Local Randomization Framework for Regression Discontinuity Designs: A Review and Some Extensions

Zach Branson, Fabrizia Mealli

Regression discontinuity designs (RDDs) are a common quasi-experiment in economics and statistics. The most popular methodologies for analyzing RDDs utilize continuity-based assump…

math.ST2018

Ridge Rerandomization: An Experimental Design Strategy in the Presence of Collinearity

Zach Branson, Stephane Shao

Randomization ensures that observed and unobserved covariates are balanced, on average. However, randomizing units to treatment and control often leads to covariate imbalances in r…

math.ST2018

Sampling-based randomized designs for causal inference under the potential outcomes framework

Zach Branson, Tirthankar Dasgupta

We establish the inferential properties of the mean-difference estimator for the average treatment effect in randomized experiments where each unit in a population is randomized to…

stat.AP2018

A Bayesian Nonparametric Approach to Geographic Regression Discontinuity Designs: Do School Districts Affect NYC House Prices?

Maxime Rischard, Zach Branson, Luke Miratrix +1

Most research on regression discontinuity designs (RDDs) has focused on univariate cases, where only those units with a "forcing" variable on one side of a threshold value receive…

stat.ME2018

Randomization Tests to Assess Covariate Balance When Designing and Analyzing Matched Datasets

Zach Branson

Causal analyses for observational studies are often complicated by covariate imbalances among treatment groups, and matching methodologies alleviate this complication by finding su…

stat.ME2018

Randomization Tests that Condition on Non-Categorical Covariate Balance

Zach Branson, Luke Miratrix

A benefit of randomized experiments is that covariate distributions of treatment and control groups are balanced on average, resulting in simple unbiased estimators for treatment e…