Much Ado About Nothing: RDD and the Incumbency Advantage

An influential paper by Caughey and Sekhon (2011a) suggests that the outcomes of very close US House elections in the postwar era may not be as-if random, thus calling into question this application of regression discontinuity for causal inference. We show that while incumbent party candidates are m...

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Veröffentlicht in:	Political analysis 2017-04, Vol.25 (2), p.269-275
Hauptverfasser:	Erikson, Robert S., Rader, Kelly
Format:	Artikel
Sprache:	eng
Schlagworte:	Candidates Congressional elections Disposable income Econometrics Incumbency Inference Letters Political parties Political science Validity Variables
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