rddtools (version 1.6.0)

rdd_bw_cct_estim: Bandwidth selection for Regression Discontinuity estimators, CTT 2014

Description

Simple wrapper of the Calonico-Cattaneo-Titiunik (2014) bandwidth selection procedures for RDD estimators rdbwselect.

Usage

rdd_bw_cct_estim(
  rdd_object,
  method = c("mserd", "msetwo", "msesum", "msecomb1", "msecomb2", "cerrd", "certwo",
    "cersum", "cercomb1"),
  kernel = c("Triangular", "Uniform", "Epanechnikov"),
  ...
)

Arguments

rdd_object

of class rdd_data created by rdd_data

method

The type of method used. See

kernel

The type of kernel used: either Triangular, Uniform or Epanechnikov.

…

further arguments passed to rdbwselect.

Value

See documentation of rdbwselect

References

Calonico, S., M. D. Cattaneo, and R. Titiunik. 2014a. Robust Nonparametric Confidence Intervals for Regression-Discontinuity Designs. Econometrica 82(6): 2295-2326. https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/01621459.2015.1017578.

See Also

rdd_bw_ik Local RDD bandwidth selector using the plug-in method of Imbens and Kalyanaraman (2012)

Examples

# NOT RUN {
data(house)
rd<- rdd_data(x=house$x, y=house$y, cutpoint=0)
rdd_bw_cct_estim(rd)

# }