These are data you can use to replicate the regression discontinuity design analyses throughout Chapter 4 of Mastering 'Metrics. Original analyses come from Carpenter and Dobkin (2009, 2011).
Format
A data frame with 50 observations on the following 19 variables.
agecella numeric
alla numeric
allfitteda numeric
internala numeric
internalfitteda numeric
externala numeric
externalfitteda numeric
alcohola numeric
alcoholfitteda numeric
homicidea numeric
homicidefitteda numeric
suicidea numeric
suicidefitteda numeric
mvaa numeric
mvafitteda numeric
drugsa numeric
drugsfitteda numeric
externalothera numeric
externalotherfitteda numeric
References
Carpenter, Christopher and Carlos Dobkin. 2009. "The Effect of Alcohol Consumption on Mortality: Regression Discontinuity Evidence from the Minimum Drinking Age". American Economic Journal: Applied Economics 1(1): 164--182.
Carpenter, Christopher and Carloss Dobkin. 2011. "The Minimum Legal Drinking Age and Public Health". Journal of Economic Perspectives 25(2): 133--156.