Estimation and Inference in Boundary Discontinuity Designs: Location-Based Methods
边界断点设计的估计与推断:基于位置的方法
Boundary discontinuity designs are used to learn about causal treatment effects along a continuous assignment boundary that splits units into control and treatment groups according to a bivariate location score. We analyze location-based local polynomial treatment effect estimators that directly employ the bivariate score of each unit. We develop pointwise and uniform estimation and inference methods for the \textit{Boundary Average Treatment Effect Curve} (BATEC), as well…