Sharp RD/MLDA
The acronym for this threshold is MLDA.
Minimum Legal Drinking Age
The initials of this exam school are BLS.
Boston Latin School
These two people are the authors of the Mastering Metrics textbook.
Joshua D. Angrist and Jorn-Steffen Pischke
The simple RD equation for the MLDA example.
Ma = α + pDa + ya + ea
The consequence of a narrow window.
Less precision
Draw a diagram showing the difference between a sharp and fuzzy RD.
Points pending approval
The final Figure Number in Chapter 4.
4.10
The value of p (rho) in the simple MLDA equation.
7.7 deaths per 100,000
The reason to narrow the window.
It is easier to distinguish the discontinuity.
According to a simple regression model, what is the estimated coefficient for peer quality.
0.25 standard deviations
The value of p (rho) in the fancy/quadratic MLDA equation.
9.5 deaths per 100,000
Assuming a good RD model, the extent to which results should change under different bandwidths.
Results should not change.
The peer quality effect is not statistically significant according to this equation.
2SLS equation
These two psychologists told the first RD story.
Donald L. Thistlethwaite and Donald T. Campbell
Motor Vehicle Accidents
State a difference between parametric and non-parametric.
Parametric assumes a functional form, nonparametric does not.
Non-parametric uses data near the cutoff point.
This happens when replacing peer quality with peer proportion white in the second stage of the 2SLS equation.
Draw the cartoon at the end of the MLDA example.
see page 163