Panel: Technical & Practical Issues for Quasi-Experimental Evaluation Designs
(Methods and Tools of Analysis)

Thursday, November 7, 2019: 3:30 PM-5:00 PM
Plaza Building: Concourse Level, Governor's Square 10 (Sheraton Denver Downtown)

*Names in bold indicate Presenter

Panel Chair:  Beth Boulay, Abt Associates, Inc.
Discussant:  Vivian Wong, University of Virginia

Technical & Practical Issues for Quasi-Experimental Evaluation Designs


Local Polynomial Order in Regression Discontinuity Designs
Zhuan Pei, Cornell University, David Card, University of California, Berkeley, David S. Lee, Princeton University and Andrea Weber, IZA Bonn



The Comparative Regression Discontinuity Design: A Simulation Study of Its Sensitivity to Violations of Its Key Assumptions about Causal Generalization Away from the Treatment Cutoff
Kathryn A. Hendren, Mansi Wadhwa and Thomas Cook, George Washington University



A Review of Methods for Assessing Sensitivity of Quasi-Experimental Effect Estimates to Unobserved Confounders
Fatih Unlu, RAND Corporation, Douglas Lauen, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill and Elizabeth Stuart, Johns Hopkins University



The Impacts of India’s Cash Ban: Evidence Using Regression Discontinuity Design
Mel George, University of Maryland




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