RD2D

The rd2d package provides R implementations of pointwise and uniform estimation and inference for Boundary Discontinuity Designs employing local polynomial methods.

This work was supported in part by the National Science Foundation through grants SES-2019432 and SES-2241575.

Queries and Requests

Please email: rdpackages@googlegroups.com

R Implementation

To install/update in R type:

install.packages('rd2d')

• Help: R Manual, CRAN repository.

• Replication: Data, Illustration, Plot TE Curve, Plot Heat Maps.

Repository

For source code and related files, visit rd2d repository.

References

For overviews and introductions, see rdpackages website.

Software and Implementation

• Cattaneo, Titiunik and Yu (2025): rd2d: Causal Inference in Boundary Discontinuity Designs.
  Working paper.

Technical and Methodological

• Cattaneo, Titiunik and Yu (2025): Boundary Discontinuity Designs: Theory and Practice.
  Prepared for the 2025 Econometric Society World Congress.

• Cattaneo, Titiunik and Yu (2025): Estimation and Inference in Boundary Discontinuity Designs: Location-Based Methods.
  Working paper.
  Supplemental Appendix.

• Cattaneo, Titiunik and Yu (2025): Estimation and Inference in Boundary Discontinuity Designs: Distance-Based Methods.
  Working paper.
  Supplemental Appendix.

• Cattaneo, Titiunik and Yu (2025): Estimation and Inference in Boundary Discontinuity Designs: Pooling-Based Methods.
  Working paper.
  Supplemental Appendix.