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RDBALANCE: Stata module to compute covariate balance statistics with formatted table output in treatment effect analysis and RDD

Author

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  • Yongli Chen

    (Antai College of Economics and Management, Shanghai Jiao Tong University)

  • Yujun Lian

    (Department of Finance, Sun Yat-Sen University, China)

Programming Language

Stata

Abstract

rdbalance produces a table of distributional test statistics for each covariate specified, and assesses balance between treatment groups in the means (using the standardized difference) and in the variances (using the variance ratio). It allows you to specify the list of statistics to be displayed and can export table directly to excel. When applying RDD methods, rdbalance can be used to summarize the statistics for two subsamples that center on the cutoff point and test the balance between the control group and the treatment group through two perspectives: the means (SMD) and standard errors (VR). SMD denotes the standardized mean difference between the two groups of data, while VR denotes the variance difference. For example usage of this command, see Chen et al. (2019).

Suggested Citation

  • Yongli Chen & Yujun Lian, 2021. "RDBALANCE: Stata module to compute covariate balance statistics with formatted table output in treatment effect analysis and RDD," Statistical Software Components S458966, Boston College Department of Economics.
    • Handle: RePEc:boc:bocode:s458966
    Note: This module should be installed from within Stata by typing "ssc install rdbalance". The module is made available under terms of the GPL v3 (https://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-3.0.txt). Windows users should not attempt to download these files with a web browser.
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