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Re: st: Re: comparing regression discontinuity treatment effects for different subsamples
From
Austin Nichols <[email protected]>
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Re: st: Re: comparing regression discontinuity treatment effects for different subsamples
Date
Tue, 12 Oct 2010 16:12:59 -0400
Prashant <[email protected]>:
That looks like a good start, but what are you supplying to option z0?
Do males and females have different cutoffs in the assignment variable
(AKA running variable)?
On Tue, Oct 12, 2010 at 9:19 AM, Prashant <[email protected]> wrote:
> Dear Austin and John,
>
> Thank you so much for your kind advice. I am new to programming in
> Stata and so would appreciate any further feedback on whether the
> following example code correctly captures the idea:
>
> capture program drop mycompare1
> program mycompare1, eclass
> version 11.1
> syntax varlist(numeric)
> quietly rd `varlist' if female == 1, z0(fixed_bw1) mbw(100) bw(2) kernel(tri)
> matrix treat1 = e(b)
> quietly rd `varlist' if female == 0, z0(fixed_bw2) mbw(100) bw(2) kernel(tri)
> matrix treat2 = e(b)
> matrix diff = treat2 - treat1
> ereturn post diff
> end
>
> bootstrap, reps(1000): mycompare1 yvar running_var
>
> Many thanks again--best wishes,
> Prashant
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