house: Dataset used in Lee (2008)

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Dataset used in Lee (2008)

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' former Harvard webpage, archived at https://web.archive.org/web/20240811075722/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. \Sexpr[results=rd]{tools:::Rd_expr_doi("10.1093/restud/rdr043")}

Lee, D. (2008) Randomized experiments from non-random selection in U.S. House elections, Journal of Econometrics, 142, 675-697. \Sexpr[results=rd]{tools:::Rd_expr_doi("10.1016/j.jeconom.2007.05.004")}

Examples

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

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