house: Dataset used in Lee (2008)

In rddtools: Toolbox for Regression Discontinuity Design ('RDD')

Description

Randomized experiments from non-random selection in U.S. House elections

Dataset described used in Imbens and Kalyamaran (2012), and probably the same dataset used in Lee (2008),

Format

A data frame with 6558 observations and two variables:

x

Vote at election t-1

y

Vote at election t

Source

Guido Imbens webpage: https://scholar.harvard.edu/imbens/scholar_software/regression-discontinuity

References

Imbens, Guido and Karthik Kalyanaraman. (2012) 'Optimal Bandwidth Choice for the regression discontinuity estimator,' Review of Economic Studies (2012) 79, 933-959

Lee, D. (2008) Randomized experiments from non-random selection in U.S. House elections, Journal of Econometrics, 142, 675-697

Examples

data(house)
rdd_house <- rdd_data(x=x, y=y, data=house, cutpoint=0)
summary(rdd_house)
plot(rdd_house)

Example output

Loading required package: AER
Loading required package: car
Loading required package: lmtest
Loading required package: zoo

Attaching package: 'zoo'

The following objects are masked from 'package:base':

    as.Date, as.Date.numeric

Loading required package: sandwich
Loading required package: survival
Loading required package: np
Nonparametric Kernel Methods for Mixed Datatypes (version 0.60-3)
[vignette("np_faq",package="np") provides answers to frequently asked questions]
[vignette("np",package="np") an overview]
[vignette("entropy_np",package="np") an overview of entropy-based methods]
### rdd_data object ###

Cutpoint: 0 
Sample size: 
	-Full : 6558 
	-Left : 2740 
	-Right: 3818
Covariates: no 

rddtools documentation built on Jan. 10, 2022, 5:07 p.m.