Empirical Strategies: Regression Discontinuity a) Suppose you would like to estimate the casual impact of Medicare coverage on utilization (eg. doctor visits) of health services in a regression. We...

Empirical Strategies: Regression Discontinuity

a) Suppose you would like to estimate the casual impact of Medicare coverage on utilization (eg. doctor visits) of health services in a regression. We have survey data that records the number of doctor visits over the last 12 months

b)  Suppose you would like to estimate the casual impact of Medicare coverage on utilization (eg. mortality) of health services in a regression in a discontinuity design. We have hospital admission data that records mortality of all individuals who are admitted to the hopsital.