Regression discontinuity models, where the probability of treatment jumps discretely when a running variable crosses a threshold, are commonly used to nonparametrically identify and estimate a local average treatment effect. We show that the derivative of this treatment effect with respect to the running variable is nonparametrically identified and easily estimated. Then, given a local policy i...

We evaluate a “girl-friendly” primary school program in Burkina Faso using a regression discontinuity design. After 2.5 years, the program increased enrollment by 19 percentage points and increased test scores by 0.41 standard deviations. For those caused to attend school, scores increased by 2.2 standard deviations. Girls’ enrollment increased by 5 percentage points more than boys’ enrollment,...

This paper attempts to understand the structure underlining the weakness of the Indonesian economic development strategy in a systemic perspective. The explanation assumes the importance of industrial technological capability within the framework of the techno-economic structure. The results of a simulated model of techno-economic administration show the weakness of the industrial technological...

Recent results for tree amplitudes for the N = 2 noncritical strings are presented and compared with the critical case. Arguments are given which indicate a certain discontinuity in passing from thê c < 1 model (in a Coulomb gas representation) to thê c = 1 critical case.

The valuation of American Options can often be reduced to the study of a free boundary value problem for a partial differential equation. This paper will discuss how the Method of Lines (MOL) can be used to study the numerical valuation of American Options and to determine the early exercise frontier. This method is flexible, accurate and computationally fast.

The NC-proximal average is a parametrized function used to continuously transform one proper, lsc, prox-bounded function into another. Until now it has been defined for two functions. The purpose of this article is to redefine it so that any finite number of functions may be used. The layout generally follows that of [11], extending those results to the more general case and in some instances g...