rddensity_senate

margin

Extract of the dataset constructed by Cattaneo, Frandsen, and Titiunik (2015),
 which include measures of incumbency advantage in the U.S. Senate for the
 period 1914-2010.

Density discontinuity testing (a.k.a. manipulation testing) is commonly employed in regression discontinuity designs and other program evaluation settings to detect perfect self-selection (manipulation) around a cutoff where treatment/policy assignment changes. This package implements manipulation testing procedures using the local polynomial density estimators: rddensity() to construct test statistics and p-values given a prespecified cutoff, rdbwdensity() to perform data-driven bandwidth selection, and rdplotdensity() to construct density plots.

Xinwei Ma

rddensity

Manipulation Testing Based on Density Discontinuity

Michael Jansson

rddensity_senate function

Numeric vector containing 1390 observations:<dl>
 <dt>margin</dt>
<dd>Numeric vector. See Cattaneo, Frandsen and Titiunik (2015) regarding details about this dataset.</dd>
</dl>

Format

RD Senate Data — rddensity_senate

Numeric vector containing 1390 observations:<dl>
 <dt>margin</dt>
<dd>Numeric vector. See Cattaneo, Frandsen and Titiunik (2015) regarding details about this dataset.</dd>


</dl>

rddensity_senate: RD Senate Data

Description

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