The rd2d package provides R implementations of pointwise and uniform estimation and inference for Boundary Discontinuity Designs employing local polynomial methods.
This work was supported in part by the National Science Foundation through grants SES-2019432 and SES-2241575.
https://rdpackages.github.io/rd2d
Please email: [email protected]
To install/update in R type:
install.packages('rd2d')
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Help: R Manual, CRAN repository.
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Replication: Data, Illustration, Plot TE Curve, Plot Heat Maps.
The R package source lives in R/rd2d. The remaining files in R are illustration scripts, input data, and curated results.
From the repository root, check the package with:
R CMD check --no-manual R/rd2dGitHub Actions runs this check on Linux, macOS, and Windows for pull requests and pushes that touch the R package source.
For source code and related files, visit rd2d repository.
For overviews and introductions, see rdpackages website.
- Cattaneo, Titiunik and Yu (2025): rd2d: Causal Inference in Boundary Discontinuity Designs.
Working paper.
Cattaneo, Titiunik and Yu (2026): Boundary Discontinuity Designs: Theory and Practice.
Advances in Economics and Econometrics: Thirteenth World Congress, eds. R. Griffith, Y. Gorodnichenko, M. Kandori and F. Molinari, Cambridge University Press, Vol. 1, Ch. 2, to appear, 2026.
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Cattaneo, Titiunik and Yu (2026): Estimation and Inference in Boundary Discontinuity Designs: Location-Based Methods.
Journal of American Statistical Association, revise and resubmit.
Supplemental Appendix. -
Cattaneo, Titiunik and Yu (2026): Estimation and Inference in Boundary Discontinuity Designs: Distance-Based Methods.
Journal of Econometrics, revise and resubmit.
Supplemental Appendix. -
Cattaneo, Titiunik and Yu (2026): Estimation and Inference in Boundary Discontinuity Designs: Pooling-Based Methods.
Working paper.
Supplemental Appendix.