5 papers
disco: Distributional Synthetic Controls
Florian Gunsilius, David Van Dijcke
The method of synthetic controls is widely used for evaluating causal effects of policy changes in settings with observational data. Often, researchers aim to estimate the causal i…
IV regression with distribution-valued outcomes
David Van Dijcke, Kaspar Wüthrich
We develop IV Fréchet regression (IVFR), an instrumental-variable (IV) method for settings where the outcome is an entire distribution. Framing the problem as an IV regression in…
A Test for Jumps in Metric-Space Conditional Means
David Van Dijcke
Standard methods for detecting discontinuities in conditional means are not applicable to outcomes that are complex, non-Euclidean objects like distributions, networks, or covarian…
Free Discontinuity Regression: With an Application to the Economic Effects of Internet Shutdowns
Florian Gunsilius, David Van Dijcke
Sharp, multidimensional changepoints-abrupt shifts in a regression surface whose locations and magnitudes are unknown-arise in settings as varied as gene-expression profiling, fina…
Regression Discontinuity Design with Distribution-Valued Outcomes
David Van Dijcke
This article introduces Regression Discontinuity Design (RDD) with Distribution-Valued Outcomes (R3D), extending the standard RDD framework to settings where the outcome is a distr…