Practical Guide to Regression Discontinuity

At this website is a guide to conducting, planning, or reviewing Regression Discontinuity designs, considered to be one of the most rigorous forms of non-experimental research designs for assessing program impact or effectiveness. The guide, published by Manpower Demonstration Research Corporation (MDRC), describes how to conduct appropriate statistical analyses and other issues in implementing this design, and provides checklists and a sample data set.  MDRC conducted this work with support from the Institute of Education Sciences, U.S. Department of Education.