"Waiting for Life to Arrive": A history of the regression-discontinuity design in Psychology, Statistics and Economics
"Waiting for Life to Arrive": A history of the regression-discontinuity design in Psychology, Statistics and Economics
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DOI：
10.1016/j.jeconom.2007.05.002
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发表时间：
2008-02-01
影响因子：
6.3
通讯作者：
Cook, Thomas D.
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作者：
Cook, Thomas D.
本文回顾了回归不连续设计在三个学科中的发展历史。它描述了该设计在心理学中的诞生和随后的消亡，尽管它的大多数问题都在那里得到了解决。它进一步描述了在统计学方面受过正式训练的学者对设计的兴趣不足，以及从1972年到1995年左右经济学对设计的不良接受，当时它的形象和接受程度发生了变化。这段曲折的历史被描述为等待生命的到来。(c)2007 Elsevier B.V.保留所有权利。
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.