Comparing Inference Approaches for RD Designs: A Reexamination of the Effect of Head Start on Child Mortality

Business & Economics

• Child Mortality 100%
• Regression Discontinuity Design 87%
• Inference 55%
• Randomization 40%
• Regression Discontinuity 34%
• Conditional Expectation 22%
• Exact Inference 14%
• Approximation 13%
• Local Polynomial 13%
• Potential Outcomes 11%
• Software 11%
• Causal Inference 10%
• Policy Evaluation 10%
• Experimental Design 10%
• Extrapolation 10%
• Empirical Methods 10%
• Treatment Effects 9%
• Finite Sample 9%
• Sensitivity Analysis 7%
• Assignment 7%
• Credibility 7%
• Alternatives 3%

Social Sciences

• mortality 56%
• regression 43%
• software 11%
• empirical method 10%
• literature 10%
• credibility 7%
• assistance 6%
• present 4%
• evaluation 3%