This study uses discontinuities in U.S. strategies employed during the Vietnam War to estimate their causal impacts. It identifies the effects of bombing by exploiting rounding thresholds in an algori
In many countries, important features of municipal government (such as the electoral system, mayors' salaries, and the number of councillors) depend on whether the municipality is above or below arbit
Estimation of discontinuities is pervasive in applied economics: from the study of sheepskin effects to prospect theory and bunching of reported income on tax returns, models that predict discontinuit
