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Improving Balance in Regression Discontinuity Design by Matching: Estimating the Effect of Academic Probation after the First Year of College
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Chi, Olivia L.; Dow, Aaron W. – Society for Research on Educational Effectiveness, 2014
This study focuses on how matching, a method of preprocessing data prior to estimation and analysis, can be used to reduce imbalance between treatment and control group in regression discontinuity design. To examine the effects of academic probation on student outcomes, researchers replicate and expand upon research conducted by Lindo, Sanders,…
Descriptors: Regression (Statistics), Quasiexperimental Design, Nonparametric Statistics, Academic Probation