Introduction to Regression Discontinuity Design. [PDF]
Ann Clin Epidemiol, 2022 It is common clinical practice for physicians to refer to specific diagnostic criteria for day-to-day decision-making. In particular, whether or not to provide a particular treatment is often determined by the cutoff value of a relevant diagnostic marker.
Sasabuchi Y.
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Conflict violence reduction and pregnancy outcomes: A regression discontinuity design in Colombia. [PDF]
PLoS Medicine, 2021 BackgroundThe relationship between exposure to conflict violence during pregnancy and the risks of miscarriage, stillbirth, and perinatal mortality has not been studied empirically using rigorous methods and appropriate data.
Giancarlo Buitrago, Rodrigo Moreno-Serra
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Targeting Women's vulnerable employment through social protection: A quasi-experimental regression discontinuity design [PDF]
Heliyon, 2022 In Pakistan, women face economic and social vulnerability, which keeps them underpaid even without social barriers. Government micro and macroeconomic policies are aimed at income generation rather than making women part of the economic mainstream.
Mudassira Sarfraz +4 more
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Test cricketers score quickly during the 'nervous nineties': Evidence from a regression discontinuity design. [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2023 The 'nervous nineties' is a well-known cricket colloquialism that implies that batting within reach of 100 runs is mentally demanding. Despite common acceptance of this phenomenon, no study has used a historical test cricket dataset to examine how ...
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Evaluating the effectiveness of the HPV vaccination programme in England, using regression discontinuity design [PDF]
International Journal of Population Data ScienceObjective and Approach In England, the National human papillomavirus (HPV) HPV Immunisation Programme was introduced for young girls in 2008. Whilst clinical trials have shown high vaccine effectiveness, real-world evidence is still accruing. Estimating
Isobel Ward +3 more
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Impact of the 2013 WHO guidelines for screening and treatment of cervical pre-cancerous lesions on women’s screening uptake, by HIV-status, in Eastern and Southern Africa: a regression discontinuity design analysis [PDF]
Reproductive HealthBackground The 2013 World Health Organization (WHO) guidelines for cervical pre-cancer screening recommended screening women aged 30–49 and women living with HIV (WLHIV) starting at age 25.
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Estimating Incumbency Effects Using Regression Discontinuity Design
Research & Politics, 2018 In recent years, research on the incumbency effect using a regression discontinuity design has flourished. Although the regression discontinuity design has allowed scholars to examine the incumbency effect in various electoral settings, previous studies ...
B. K. Song
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Effect of retirement on the body mass index in China: a nationwide study based on the regression discontinuity design [PDF]
BMC Public HealthIntroduction Retirement represents a significant life transition and is associated with individual health outcomes. Previous studies on the health effects of retirement have yielded inconsistent conclusions.
Jiarun Mi +15 more
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Incentive effects of cash benefit among low-skilled young adults: Applying a regression discontinuity design. [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2020 In 2014, the Danish Government implemented an active labour market reform directed at unemployed young adults under 30 years of age with low educational qualifications.
Helle Bendix Kleif, Jacob Nielsen Arendt
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Regression discontinuity design for the study of health effects of exposures acting early in life [PDF]
Frontiers in Public HealthRegression discontinuity design (RDD) is a quasi-experimental approach to study the causal effect of an exposure on later outcomes by exploiting the discontinuity in the exposure probability at an assignment variable cut-off.
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