rdd_bw_cct_estim {rddtools}

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

Author(s)

Original code written by Calonico, Cattaneo, Farrell and Titiuni, see 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

data(house)
rd<- rdd_data(x=house$x, y=house$y, cutpoint=0)
rdd_bw_cct_estim(rd)