heteroskedasticity-robust standard errors. This paper develops the "fixed-bandwidth" alternative asymptotic theory for RD designs, which … to treating RD estimators as locally parametric, validating the common empirical practice of using heteroskedasticity-robust … standard errors in RD settings. Bias mitigation approaches are discussed and a novel, bootstrap higher-order bias correction …

heteroskedasticity-robust standard errors. This paper develops the "fixed-bandwidth" alternative asymptotic theory for RD designs, which … to treating RD estimators as locally parametric, validating the common empirical practice of using heteroskedasticity-robust … standard errors in RD settings. Bias mitigation approaches are discussed and a novel, bootstrap higher-order bias correction …