Monographs

• A Practical Introduction to Regression Discontinuity Designs: Extensions, with Matias Cattaneo and Nicolas Idrobo. Elements in Quantitative and Computational Methods for the Social Sciences. Cambridge University Press, 2024.
  Preprint version | Replication files.

• A Practical Introduction to Regression Discontinuity Designs: Foundations, with Matias D. Cattaneo and Nicolas Idrobo. Elements in Quantitative and Computational Methods for the Social Sciences. Cambridge University Press, 2020.
  Preprint version | Replication files

Journal Articles

• A Guide to Regression Discontinuity Designs in Medical Applications, with Luke Keele and Matias Cattaneo.
  Statistics in Medicine 42(24): 4484-4513, 2023.
  Replication Files

• Regression Discontinuity Designs, with Matias D. Cattaneo.
  Annual Review of Economics 14: 821-851, 2022.

• Parties as Disciplinarians: Charisma and Commitment Problems in Programmatic Campaigning, with James Hollyer and Marko Klašnja.
  American Journal of Political Science 66(1): 75-92, 2022.
  Supplemental Appendix.

• Extrapolating Treatment Effects in Multi-Cutoff Regression Discontinuity Designs, with Matias D. Cattaneo, Luke Keele and Gonzalo Vazquez-Bare.
  Journal of the American Statistical Association 116(536): 1941-1952, 2021.
  Supplemental Appendix

• Prediction Intervals for Synthetic Control Methods, with Matias D. Cattaneo and Yingjie Feng.
  Journal of the American Statistical Association 116(536): 1865-1880, 2021.
  Supplemental Appendix.

• Regression Discontinuity Designs Using Covariates, with Sebastian Calonico, Matias D. Cattaneo, and Max H. Farrell.
  Review of Economics and Statistics 101 (3): 442-451, 2019.
  Supplemental Appendix

• Geographic Natural Experiments with Interference: The Effect of All-Mail Voting on Turnout in Colorado, with Luke Keele.
  CESifo Economic Studies 64 (2): 127-149, 2018.

• Legislative Behavior Absent Reelection Incentives: Findings from a Natural Experiment in the Arkansas Senate, with Andrew Feher.
  Journal of the Royal Statistical Society: Series A 181 (2): 351-378, 2018.
  Supplemental Appendix

• Differential Registration Bias in Voter File Data: A Sensitivity Analysis Approach, with Brendan Nyhan and Christopher Skovron.
  American Journal of Political Science 61 (3): 744-760, 2017.
  Supplemental Appendix

• Comparing Inference Approaches for RD Designs: A Reexamination of the Effect of Head Start on Child Mortality, with Matias D. Cattaneo and Gonzalo Vazquez-Bare.
  Journal of Policy Analysis and Management 36 (3): 643-681, 2017.

• The Incumbency Curse: Weak Parties, Term Limits, and Unfulfilled Accountability, with Marko Klaŝnja.
  American Political Science Review 111 (1): 129-148, 2017.
  Supplemental Appendix | Replication Files

• Understanding Regression Discontinuity Designs as Observational Studies, with Jasjeet Sekhon.
  Observational Studies 2: 174-182, 2016.

• Interpreting Regression Discontinuity Designs with Multiple Cutoffs, with Matias D. Cattaneo, Luke Keele and Gonzalo Vazquez-Bare.
  Journal of Politics 78 (4): 1229-1248, 2016.
  Supplemental Appendix

• Cause or Effect? Turnout in Hispanic Majority-Minority Districts, with Jasjeet Sekhon and John Henderson.
  Political Analysis 24 (3): 404-412, 2016.

• Drawing Your Senator From a Jar: Term Length and Legislative Behavior.
  Political Science Research and Methods 4 (2): 293-316, 2016.
  Supplemental Apendix | Replication files

• Natural Experiments Based on Geography, with Luke Keele.
  Political Science Research and Methods 4 (1): 65-95, 2016.
  Replication files

• Optimal Data-Driven Regression Discontinuity Plots, with Matias D. Cattaneo and and Sebastian Calonico.
  Journal of the American Statistical Association 110 (512): 1753-1769, 2015.
  Supplemental Appendix

• Using Regression Discontinuity to Uncover the Personal Incumbency Advantage, with Robert S. Erikson.
  Quarterly Journal of Political Science 10 (1): 101-119, 2015.
  Supplemental Appendix

• Randomization Inference in the Regression Discontinuity Design: An Application to Party Advantages in the U.S. Senate, with Brigham Frandsen and Matias D. Cattaneo.
  Journal of Causal Inference 3 (1): 1-24, 2015.
  Replication files

• Geographic Boundaries as Regression Discontinuities, with Luke Keele.
  Political Analysis 23 (1): 127-155, 2015.
  Replication files

• Enhancing a Geographic Regression Discontinuity Design Through Matching to Estimate the Effect of Ballot Initiatives on Voter Turnout, with Luke Keele and Jose Zubizarreta.
  Journal of the Royal Statistical Society: Series A 178 (1): 223-239, 2015.
  Supplemental Appendix

• Can Big Data Solve the Fundamental Problem of Causal Inference?.
  PS: Political Science & Politics 48 (1): 75-79, 2015.

• Robust Nonparametric Confidence Intervals for Regression-Discontinuity Designs, with Sebastian Calonico and Matias D. Cattaneo.
  Econometrica 82 (6): 2295-2326, 2014.
  Supplemental Appendix

• When Natural Experiments Are Neither Natural Nor Experiments, with Jasjeet Sekhon.
  American Political Science Review 106 (1): 35-57, 2012.

• Housing, Health and Happiness, with Matias D. Cattaneo, Sebastian Galiani, Paul Gertler, and Sebastian Martinez.
  American Economic Journal: Economic Policy 1 (1): 75-105, 2009.

• Changes in the Panamanian Wage Structure: A Quantile Regression Analysis, with Sebastian Galiani.
  Economica 51 (1): 3-26, 2005.

Book Chapters

• Covariate Adjustment in Regression Discontinuity Designs, with Luke Keele and Matias Cattaneo.
  Handbook of Matching and Weighting in Causal Inference, J. R. Zubizarreta, E. A. Stuart, D. S. Small and P. R. Rosenbaum, editors, Chapman & Hall, Ch. 8, pp. 153-168, 2023.

• Natural Experiments.
  Advances in Experimental Political Science, J. N. Druckman and D. P. Green, editors, Cambridge University Press, Ch. 6, pp. 103-129, 2021.

• The Regression Discontinuity Design, with Matias D. Cattaneo and Gonzalo Vazquez-Bare.
  Handbook of Research Methods in Political Science and International Relations, L. Curini and R. J. Franzese, editors. Sage Publications, Ch. 44, pp. 835-847, 2020.
  Replication Files

• On Interpreting the Regression Discontinuity Design as a Local Experiment, with Jasjeet Sekhon.
  Regression Discontinuity Designs: Theory and Applications (Advances in Econometrics, Volume 38), M. D. Cattaneo and J. C. Escanciano, editors, 1-28. Emerald Publishing Limited, 2017.

• An Overview of Geographically Discontinuous Treatment Assignments With an Application to Children’s Health Insurance
  Regression Discontinuity Designs: Theory and Applications (Advances in Econometrics, Volume 38), M. D. Cattaneo and J. C. Escanciano, editors, 147-194. Emerald Publishing Limited, 2017.

• Review of Field Experiments: Design, Analysis and Interpretation, by Alan S. Gerber and Donald P. Green.
  Newsletter of the APSA Experimental Section, Volume 3, Issue 1, 2012.

• Two Tailed Test.
  Encyclopedia of Research Design, SAGE Publications, 2010.

Statistical Software Articles

• scpi: Uncertainty Quantification for Synthetic Control Methods, with Matias D. Cattaneo, Yingjie Feng and Filippo Palomba.
  Journal of Statistical Software forthcoming.
  Software page.

• Analysis of Regression Discontinuity Designs with Multiple Cutoffs or Multiple Scores, with Matias D. Cattaneo and Gonzalo Vazquez-Bare.
  Stata Journal 20 (4): 866-891, 2020.
  Software page

• Power Calculations for Regression Discontinuity Designs, with Matias D. Cattaneo and Gonzalo Vazquez-Bare.
  Stata Journal 19 (1): 210-245, 2019.
  Software page

• rdrobust: Software for Regression Discontinuity Designs, with Sebastian Calonico, Matias D. Cattaneo and Max H. Farrell.
  Stata Journal 17 (2): 372-404, 2017.
  Software page

• Inference in Regression Discontinuity Designs under Local Randomization, with Matias D. Cattaneo and Gonzalo Vazquez-Bare.
  Stata Journal 16 (2): 331- 367, 2016.
  Software page

• rdrobust: An R Package for Robust Nonparametric Inference in Regression-Discontinuity Designs, with Sebastian Calonico and Matias D. Cattaneo.
  R Journal 7 (1): 38-51, 2015.
  Software page

• Robust Data-Driven Inference in the Regression-Discontinuity Design, with Sebastian Calonico and Matias D. Cattaneo.
  Stata Journal 14 (4): 909-946, 2014.
  Software page