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rdrobust

Robust Data-Driven Statistical Inference in Regression-Discontinuity Designs

v4.0.0 · May 16, 2026 · GPL-3

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Regression-discontinuity (RD) designs are quasi-experimental research designs popular in social, behavioral and natural sciences. The RD design is usually employed to study the (local) causal effect of a treatment, intervention or policy. This package provides tools for data-driven graphical and analytical statistical inference in RD designs: rdrobust() to construct local-polynomial point estimators and robust confidence intervals for average treatment effects at the cutoff in Sharp, Fuzzy and Kink RD settings, rdbwselect() to perform bandwidth selection for the different procedures implemented, and rdplot() to conduct exploratory data analysis (RD plots).

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Dependencies Reverse dependencies ggplot2 MASS MIRDD SpatialRDD causalQual hdthreshold rddtools rdhte rdlearn rdmulti rdpower rdstagger DeclareDesign grf rdss rdrobust

Version History

42 tracked
updated 4.0.0 ← 3.0.0 diff May 16, 2026
new 3.0.0 Mar 10, 2026
updated 3.0.0 ← 2.2 diff Jul 19, 2025
updated 2.2 ← 2.1.1 diff Nov 2, 2023
updated 2.1.1 ← 2.1.0 diff Dec 4, 2022
updated 2.1.0 ← 2.0.3 diff Oct 27, 2022
updated 2.0.3 ← 2.0.2 diff Sep 29, 2022
updated 2.0.2 ← 2.0.1 diff Jun 15, 2022
updated 2.0.1 ← 2.0.0 diff Jun 6, 2022
updated 2.0.0 ← 1.0.8 diff Jun 6, 2022
updated 1.0.8 ← 1.0.7 diff Dec 1, 2021
updated 1.0.7 ← 1.0.6 diff Nov 4, 2021
updated 1.0.6 ← 1.0.5 diff Sep 1, 2021
updated 1.0.5 ← 1.0.4 diff Aug 11, 2021
updated 1.0.4 ← 1.0.3 diff Jul 12, 2021