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RE: st: Re: comparing regression discontinuity treatment effects for different subsamples
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"Villa Lora, Juan Miguel" <[email protected]>
To
"[email protected]" <[email protected]>
Subject
RE: st: Re: comparing regression discontinuity treatment effects for different subsamples
Date
Tue, 12 Oct 2010 16:53:09 -0400
Hello,
I'd recommend Prof. Imbens's program on RD found at http://www.economics.harvard.edu/faculty/imbens/software_imbens with the built-in optimal choice of the bandwidth MSE explained at http://www.economics.harvard.edu/faculty/imbens/files/rd_09feb3.pdf
Rgards,
Juan.
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From: [email protected] [[email protected]] On Behalf Of Austin Nichols [[email protected]]
Sent: Tuesday, October 12, 2010 4:12 PM
To: [email protected]
Subject: Re: st: Re: comparing regression discontinuity treatment effects for different subsamples
Prashant <[email protected]>:
That looks like a good start, but what are you supplying to option z0?
Do males and females have different cutoffs in the assignment variable
(AKA running variable)?
On Tue, Oct 12, 2010 at 9:19 AM, Prashant <[email protected]> wrote:
> Dear Austin and John,
>
> Thank you so much for your kind advice. I am new to programming in
> Stata and so would appreciate any further feedback on whether the
> following example code correctly captures the idea:
>
> capture program drop mycompare1
> program mycompare1, eclass
> version 11.1
> syntax varlist(numeric)
> quietly rd `varlist' if female == 1, z0(fixed_bw1) mbw(100) bw(2) kernel(tri)
> matrix treat1 = e(b)
> quietly rd `varlist' if female == 0, z0(fixed_bw2) mbw(100) bw(2) kernel(tri)
> matrix treat2 = e(b)
> matrix diff = treat2 - treat1
> ereturn post diff
> end
>
> bootstrap, reps(1000): mycompare1 yvar running_var
>
> Many thanks again--best wishes,
> Prashant
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