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15:40 - 17:20
Room: Club B
Chair/s:
Erik Chi
Daniil Chernov - Interactional Text Analysis of Focus Groups: A Computational Approach to Meaning-Making in Post-Conflict Communities
Adam Glynn - Estimating Bounds on Selection Bias with Outcomes Measured on the Selected
Erik Chi - Comparing Designs and Diagnostics in Time and Space
Thomas Plümper, Eric Neumayer - Tweaking Empirical Results of Causal Analyses: The Case of Regression Discontinuity Designs
Submission 539
Tweaking Empirical Results of Causal Analyses: The Case of Regression Discontinuity Designs
Panel.5-S-3
Presented by: Thomas Plümper, Eric Neumayer
Thomas Plümper 1, Eric Neumayer 2
1 Vienna University of Economics
2 London School of Economics
The paper discusses several potential tweaks of regression discontinuity designs and explains specifications based on simple tests are not an appropriate solution to the poblem of model specification.