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- 142
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- 2
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- 636-654
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Thomas D. Cook
(2007).
“Waiting for Life to Arrive”: A history of the regression-discontinuity design in Psychology, Statistics and Economics.
Journal of Econometrics
, 142
(2)
, 636-654.
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jeconom.2007.05.002
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- 10.1016/j.jeconom.2007.05.002