The paper analyzes the causal effects of the subsidies for small and medium-sized firms in Japan (collectively called the Monozukuri Subsidy), provided by the Japanese Small and Medium Enterprise ...
Regression discontinuity (RD) methods constitute a quasi-experimental approach to causal inference that exploits a predetermined rule linking treatment assignment to a continuous forcing variable. At ...
Professor Simon Burgess speaks to Romesh Vaitilingham about his paper How should we treat under-performing schools? A regression discontinuity analysis of school inspections in England (PDF, 1,069kB), ...