Replication

Replication files and illustration code using RD Packages.

Overviews and Practical Introductions

• Cattaneo, Idrobo and Titiunik (2020): A Practical Introduction to Regression Discontinuity Designs: Foundations.
  Cambridge Elements: Quantitative and Computational Methods for Social Science, Cambridge University Press. Erratum.

• Cattaneo, Idrobo and Titiunik (2024): A Practical Introduction to Regression Discontinuity Designs: Extensions.
  Cambridge Elements: Quantitative and Computational Methods for Social Science, Cambridge University Press.

• Cattaneo, Keele and Titiunik (2023): A Guide to Regression Discontinuity Designs in Medical Applications.
  Statistics in Medicine 42(24): 4484-4513.

• Cattaneo and Palomba (2025): Leveraging Covariates in Regression Discontinuity Designs.
  IZA World of Labor 521.

• Cattaneo and Titiunik (2021): RD Tutorial.
  NBER Summer Institute Methods Lectures.

• Cattaneo, Titiunik and Vazquez-Bare (2020): The Regression Discontinuity Design.
  Handbook of Research Methods in Political Science and International Relations, Sage Publications, Ch. 44, pp. 835-857.

• Cattaneo, Titiunik and Vazquez-Bare (2017): Comparing Inference Approaches for RD Designs: A Reexamination of the Effect of Head Start on Child Mortality.
  Journal of Policy Analysis and Management 36(3): 643-681.

Research Articles and Applications

• Calonico, Cattaneo, Farrell, Palomba and Titiunik (2025): Treatment Effect Heterogeneity in Regression Discontinuity Designs.
  Working paper.

• Cattaneo, Titiunik and Yu (2026): Estimation and Inference in Boundary Discontinuity Designs: Location-Based Methods.
  Journal of American Statistical Association, revise and resubmit.
  

• Cattaneo, Titiunik and Yu (2026): Estimation and Inference in Boundary Discontinuity Designs: Distance-Based Methods.
  Journal of Econometrics, revise and resubmit.

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

• Cattaneo, Keele, Titiunik and Vazquez-Bare (2021): Extrapolating Treatment Effects in Multi-Cutoff Regression Discontinuity Designs.
  Journal of the American Statistical Association 116(536): 1941-1952.

• Cattaneo, Jansson and Ma (2020): Simple Local Polynomial Density Estimators.
  Journal of the American Statistical Association 115(531): 1449-1455.

• Calonico, Cattaneo and Farrell (2020): Optimal Bandwidth Choice for Robust Bias Corrected Inference in Regression Discontinuity Designs.
  Econometrics Journal 23(2): 192-210.

• Calonico, Cattaneo, Farrell and Titiunik (2019): Regression Discontinuity Designs Using Covariates.
  Review of Economics and Statistics 101(3): 442-451.

• Cattaneo, Frandsen and Titiunik (2015): Randomization Inference in the Regression Discontinuity Design: An Application to Party Advantages in the U.S. Senate.
  Journal of Causal Inference 3(1): 1-24.