Research | Yingying Dong

Working Papers

Quantile Treatment Effects in Difference-in-Discontinuities Designs . Conditionally accepted at The Econometrics Journal.

Retaking to Succeed: Causal Evidence on Optional Course Retaking in College (with Kelly Chen and Xuan Jiang). Conditionally accepted at Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization.

Sharp Bounds and Inference in Sample Selection Models with Treatment Endogeneity (with Phillip Heiler).

Fuzzy Difference-in-Discontinuities Design with Heterogeneous Treatment Effects (with Xiaojun Song and Haojiao Zhao).

Identify and Estimate Causal Effects of a Continuous Treatment Using Discrete Instruments (with Ying-Ying Lee).

Publications

Right-to-Work Laws, Union Decline, and the Opioid Crisis (with Kelly Chen and Samia Islam). Journal of Population Economics, 2026, 39 (25).

When Can We Ignore the Measurement Error in the Running Variable? (with Michal Kolesár). Journal of Applied Econometrics, 2023, 38 (5) 735-780.

Regression Discontinuity Designs with a Continous Treatment (with Ying-Ying Lee and Michael Gou). Journal of the American Statistical Association, 2023, 118(541) 208-221.

Regression Discontinuity Designs with Sample Selection. Journal of Business and Economic Statistics, 2019, 37(1) 171-185. [Slides]

Alternative Assumptions to Identify LATE in Fuzzy Regression Discontinuity Designs. Oxford Bulletin of Economics and Statistics, 2018, 80 (5) 1020-27. [Appendix] [Slides]

Testing for Rank Invariance or Similarity in Program Evaluation (with Shu Shen). The Review of Economics and Statistics, 2018, 100 (1), 78-85. [Appendix] [Slides] [Replication Package]

Mandatory Retirement and the Consumption Puzzle: Disentangling Price and Quantity Declines (with Dennis Yang). Economic Inquiry, 55 (4), 1738-58. [Appendix]

Testing Stability of Regression Discontinuity Models (with Giovanni Cerulli, Arthur Lewbel, and Alexander Poulsen). Advances in Econometrics, 2017, 38, 317-339. [Stata Module]

Identifying the Effect of Changing the Policy Threshold in Regression Discontinuity Models (with Arthur Lewbel). The Review of Economics and Statistics, 2015, 97 (5), 1081-92. [Appendix] [Slides]

Regression Discontinuity Applications with Rounding Errors in the Running Variable. Journal of Applied Econometrics, 2015, 30 (3), 422?46. [Appendix ] [Slides ]

Note. This paper proposes a bias correction for the estimated RD LATE, with standard errors obtained using the delta method. An alternative implementation directly bias-corrects the polynomial regression terms before estimation, allowing standard errors to be calculated directly. See Online Appendix I to my empirical paper .

A Simple Estimator for Binary Choice Models with Endogenous Regressors (with Arthur Lewbel). Econometric Reviews, 2015, 34 (1-2), 82-105. [Stata Module]

How Health Insurance Affects Health Care Demand - A Structural Analysis of Behavioral Moral Hazard and Adverse Selection. Economic Inquiry, 2013, 51(2), 1324-44.

Comparing Features of Convenient Estimators for Binary Choice Models With Endogenous Regressors (with Arthur Lewbel and Thomas Tao Yang). Canadian Journal of Economics, 2012, 45 (3), 809-829.

Nonparametric Identification of a Binary Random Factor in Cross Section Data (with Arthur Lewbel). Journal of Econometrics, 2011, 163 (2), 163-171.

Semiparametric Binary Random Effects Models: Estimating Two Types of Drinking Behavior. Economics Letters, 2011, 112 (1), 79-81.

Kept Back to Get Ahead? Kindergarten Retention and Academic Performance. European Economic Review, 2010, 54 (2), 219-236.

Endogenous Regressor Binary Choice Models Without Instruments, With an Application to Migration. Economics Letters, 2010, 107 (1), 33-35. [Supplemental Material]

Other Research

Jump or Kink? Regression Probability Jump and Kink Design for Treatment Effect Evaluation .