Regression Discontinuity Designs in Economics

Lee, David S.; Lemieux, Thomas

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“…Observations outside this range are simply discarded. Adopting a small bandwidth will minimize the bias, however the variance might be very large due to the small number of observations (Lee and Lemieux, 2010). In contrast, a larger bandwidth will lead to a smaller variance, but the bias is potentially large.…”

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Understanding the effect of retirement on health: Mechanisms and heterogeneity

Eibich

2015

Journal of Health Economics

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Section: Choice Of the Bandwidthmentioning

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Understanding the effect of retirement on health: Mechanisms and heterogeneity

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Journal of Health Economics

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“…our preferred specifications are drawn from local linear regressions, we still present results for a variety of bandwidths and functional forms, as has become standard in the RD literature (Lee and Lemieux, 2010). The results are robust to these varying specifications leading us to conclude that passing the Baccalaureate exam from the first attempt results in significant differences in quality of schooling and subsequent labor market outcomes.…”

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“…We use a standard regression discontinuity framework (Lee and Lemieux, 2010;Imbens and Lemieux, 2008) to estimate the effects of passing the Baccalaureate exam from the first try (treatment) on educational attainment, quality of education and future labor market outcomes. The key identifying assumption underlying an RD design is that all determinants of future outcomes vary smoothly across the threshold.…”

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“…This test has become standard in the RD literature as an alternative and often preferred approach for testing the validity of the RD design (Lee and Lemieux, 2010). The intuition here is that if we observe discontinuities in exogenous variables, then the treatment is not randomly assigned and an average treatment effect is not identified.…”

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Quality of Higher Education and Earnings: Regression Discontinuity Evidence from the French Baccalaureate

Canaan

Mouganie

2014

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An emerging body of literature examines the economic returns to quality of postsecondary education. This literature has predominantly focused on the returns to the most selective universities. However, less is known about the extent to which these gains are realized for the academically marginal student who does not necessarily attend the most selective of institutions. In this paper, we address this question by exploiting the presence of the Baccalauréat Général (or the General Baccalaureate), a degree that students in France must earn to graduate from secondary school and enroll in postsecondary institutions. The degree is awarded upon passing a series of national exams. Students can retake the exam in the same year but the standards for passing are higher in the first round. Our data links individual-level information on secondary and postsecondary education to labor market outcomes, allowing us to track the complete educational and professional paths of all students in our sample. We use a regression discontinuity design that compares the outcomes of students who marginally pass and fail the first round of the French Baccalaureate exam. Marginally passing increases the likelihood of attending a higher quality university and a STEM major. Threshold crossing also raises earnings by 13.6 percent at the age of 27 to 29. After ruling out other channels that could affect earnings, we conclude that increased access to higher quality postsecondary education leads to a significant earnings premium for academically marginal students.JEL Classification: H52, I21, I28, J24 Keywords: Quality of education, returns to education, regression discontinuity design * We would like to thank Kelly Bedard, Olivier Deschênes, Mark Hoekstra, Scott Imberman, Peter Kuhn, Jason Lindo, Shelly Lundberg, Jonathan Meer, Steven Puller and Heather Royer for their invaluable comments and suggestions. We also thank seminar participants at the Applied-Micro brown bag seminar at Texas A&M University, for helpful comments and discussions. Finally, we would like to thank the staff at the "Centre Maurice Halbwachs" for providing us with the data. All errors are our own.

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“…29 For instance, the first line refers to a regression of the log of living space, the second to a similar regression on the log of 26 See Keele and Titiunik (2013) for a discussion of RDD in a spatial context. 27 For a discussion of RD in economics see Lee and Lemieux (2010). 28 To estimate the boundary effect by SRD we use the code by Nichols (2007).…”

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Border Effects in House Prices

2014

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Regression Discontinuity Designs in Economics

Cited by 3,741 publications

References 91 publications

Understanding the effect of retirement on health: Mechanisms and heterogeneity

Understanding the effect of retirement on health: Mechanisms and heterogeneity

Quality of Higher Education and Earnings: Regression Discontinuity Evidence from the French Baccalaureate

Border Effects in House Prices

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