Using a Fuzzy Regression Discontinuity a Continuous Treatment Effect
With Haitian Xie
I worked as a research assistant for Haitian Xie, who devised a new way to identify causality using regression discontinuity (RD). Standard fuzzy RDs use a binary treatment to measure the treatment effect, however Xie devised a novel model for continuous treatment variables. We apply this model to analyze how one's distance from each time zone border affects time use.
DiscontinuitySemiparametricTime UseSpatial
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