lrd

Replication material for "Limitless Regression Discontinuity"

To reproduce the results in the paper:

1. Make sure R is up-to-date with required packages installed:

• We used R version 3.4.4
• Required packages to carry out analyses:
  • robustbase
  • rdd
  • sandwich
  • nnet
  • RItools
  • pbs
• Required packages to display results (paper, analysis documents):
  • knitr
  • kableExtra
  • ggplot
  • gridExtra
• Optional packages:
  • parallel to run simulations in parallel
  • rmarkdown to make analysis documents more easily

2. In R, Run data analysis for Maria Study:
   • Dataset available from private github repo https://github.com/alexisrsantos/Deaths_Puerto_Rico_JAMA
   • Store data as extdata/death_file_JAMA.csv
   • Then run to create analysis file maria.md

library(knitr)
knit('maria.Rmd')

3. In R, Run data analysis for AP Study: (this automatically downloads publicly available data)

knit('dataAnalysis.Rmd')

• Creates files:
  • dataAnalysis.md analysis document
  • RDanalysis-[M][D][Time].RData analysis output
  • tab-results.tex tab-alt.tex tables 1 & 2 for paper

4. In R Run simulation studies

nrep <- 5000 ## number of simulation replications
knit('fullOutcomeSim.Rmd')

• Substitute nrep <- X for X simulation replications
• nrep <- 0 loads previously-run simulation files (files corresponding to results in the paper are in the repo)
• Creates files:
  • fullOutcomeSim.md analysis document
  • outcomeSim-YYYY-MM-DD.RData simulation results for table 3
  • totalPolySim-YYYY-MM-DD.RData simulation results for table 4
  • tab-levelSimulation.tex latex for table 3
  • tab-polynomialSimulation.tex latex for table 4
  • some other random files.