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most citedRegression Discontinuity Designs Using Covariates

21 citations · 36 across the 7 of their papers we have counts for

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econ.EM2025

rdhte: Conditional Average Treatment Effects in RD Designs

Sebastian Calonico, Matias D. Cattaneo, Max H. Farrell +2

Understanding causal heterogeneous treatment effects based on pretreatment covariates is a crucial aspect of empirical work. Building on Calonico, Cattaneo, Farrell, Palomba, and T…

econ.EM2025

Treatment Effect Heterogeneity in Regression Discontinuity Designs

Sebastian Calonico, Matias D. Cattaneo, Max H. Farrell +2

Empirical studies using Regression Discontinuity (RD) designs often explore heterogeneous treatment effects based on pretreatment covariates, even though no formal statistical meth…

stat.CO2019★ 4 cited

nprobust: Nonparametric Kernel-Based Estimation and Robust Bias-Corrected Inference

Sebastian Calonico, Matias D. Cattaneo, Max H. Farrell

Nonparametric kernel density and local polynomial regression estimators are very popular in Statistics, Economics, and many other disciplines. They are routinely employed in applie…

econ.EM2018★ 21 cited

Regression Discontinuity Designs Using Covariates

Sebastian Calonico, Matias D. Cattaneo, Max H. Farrell +1

We study regression discontinuity designs when covariates are included in the estimation. We examine local polynomial estimators that include discrete or continuous covariates in a…

econ.EM2018

Optimal Bandwidth Choice for Robust Bias Corrected Inference in Regression Discontinuity Designs

Sebastian Calonico, Matias D. Cattaneo, Max H. Farrell

Modern empirical work in Regression Discontinuity (RD) designs often employs local polynomial estimation and inference with a mean square error (MSE) optimal bandwidth choice. This…

econ.EM2018★ 8 cited

Coverage Error Optimal Confidence Intervals for Local Polynomial Regression

Sebastian Calonico, Matias D. Cattaneo, Max H. Farrell

This paper studies higher-order inference properties of nonparametric local polynomial regression methods under random sampling. We prove Edgeworth expansions for statistics an…

math.ST2015★ 3 cited

On the Effect of Bias Estimation on Coverage Accuracy in Nonparametric Inference

Sebastian Calonico, Matias D. Cattaneo, Max H. Farrell

Nonparametric methods play a central role in modern empirical work. While they provide inference procedures that are more robust to parametric misspecification bias, they may be qu…