Waiting for Life to Arrive: A history of the regression-discontinuity design in Psychology, Statistics and Economics

被引：171

作者：

Cook, Thomas D. ^{[1
]}

机构：

[1] Northwestern Univ, Inst Policy Res, Evanston, IL 60208 USA

来源：

JOURNAL OF ECONOMETRICS | 2008年 / 142卷 / 02期

基金：

美国国家科学基金会;

关键词：

regression discontinuity; history of; in psychology; economics; statistics;

D O I：

10.1016/j.jeconom.2007.05.002

中图分类号：

F [经济];

学科分类号：

02 [经济学];

摘要：

This paper reviews the history of the regression discontinuity design in three academic disciplines. It describes the design's birth and subsequent demise in Psychology even though most problems with it had been solved there. It further describes the scant interest shown in the design by scholars formally trained in Statistics, and the design's poor reception in Economics from 1972 until about 1995, when its profile and acceptance changed. Reasons are given for this checkered history that is characterized as waiting for life to arrive. (c) 2007 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.

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