most citedEstimation and Inference in Boundary Discontinuity Designs: Location-Based Methods

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stat.ME2026

rd2d: Causal Inference in Boundary Discontinuity Designs

Matias D. Cattaneo, Rocio Titiunik, Ruiqi Rae Yu

Boundary Discontinuity (BD) designs are used in empirical research to learn about causal treatment effects along a continuous assignment boundary defined by a bivariate score. Thes…

econ.EM2026

Estimation and Inference in Boundary Discontinuity Designs: Distance-Based Methods

Matias D. Cattaneo, Rocio Titiunik, Ruiqi Rae Yu

We study nonparametric distance-based (isotropic) local polynomial methods for estimating the boundary average treatment effect curve, a causal functional that captures treatment e…

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Estimation and Inference in Boundary Discontinuity Designs: Location-Based Methods

Matias D. Cattaneo, Rocio Titiunik, Ruiqi Rae Yu

Boundary discontinuity designs are used to learn about causal treatment effects along a continuous assignment boundary that splits units into control and treatment groups according…

econ.EM2026

Boundary Discontinuity Designs: Theory and Practice

Matias D. Cattaneo, Rocio Titiunik, Ruiqi Rae Yu

The boundary discontinuity (BD) design is a non-experimental method for identifying causal effects that exploits a thresholding rule based on a bivariate score and a boundary curve…

stat.ME2025

Randomization Inference for Before-and-After Studies with Multiple Units: An Application to a Criminal Procedure Reform in Uruguay

Matias D. Cattaneo, Carlos Diaz, Rocio Titiunik

Learning about the immediate causal effects of large-scale policy interventions poses a significant challenge for quasi-experimental methods that rely on long-term trends or parame…

stat.ME2025

The Regression Discontinuity Design in Medical Science

Matias D. Cattaneo, Rocio Titiunik

This article provides an introduction to the Regression Discontinuity (RD) design, and its application to empirical research in the medical sciences. While the main focus of this a…