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Gaming Enrollment To Get A TA
- Greg Hancock describes trying to get two extra students to trigger a TA and Patrick jokes about room capacity tricks at Carolina.
- This illustrates how incentives create gaming around institutional cut points.
Local Randomization Near Cutoffs
- Regression discontinuity (RD) leverages arbitrary cut points to strengthen causal inference by comparing observations just below and just above a threshold.
- Examples include TA assignment at 44 students and kindergarten age cutoffs where near-cutoff units are treated as locally randomized.
Twins Miss Kindergarten Cutoff By 72 Hours
- Patrick Curran recounts moving to enroll twins after missing his memory of the kindergarten cutoff by 72 hours.
- The story forced them into extra pre-K because the district required a specific birthdate cutoff.