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Barrera-Osorio, Felipe; Filmer, Deon; McIntyre, Joe – Society for Research on Educational Effectiveness, 2014
Randomized controlled trials (RCTs) and regression discontinuity (RD) studies both provide estimates of causal effects. A major difference between the two is that RD only estimates local average treatment effects (LATE) near the cutoff point of the forcing variable. This has been cited as a drawback to RD designs (Cook & Wong, 2008).…
Descriptors: Randomized Controlled Trials, Regression (Statistics), Research Problems, Comparative Analysis