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
  • sadnwich
  • nnet
  • RItools
• 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:

library(knitr)
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

3. 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
• 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.

4. In R compile LaTeX for the manuscript:

knit('lrd-r1.Rnw')

5. In the console, compile the pdf:

pdflatex lrd-r1.tex
bibtex lrd-r1
pdflatex lrd-r1.tex
pdflatex lrd-r1.tex