@article{Irwin:19258,
      recid = {19258},
      author = {Irwin, Elena G. and Carrion-Flores, Carmen E.},
      title = {Using Regression Discontinuity Design to Identify the  Effect of Zoning},
      address = {2005},
      number = {378-2016-21328},
      series = {Selected Paper 137106},
      pages = {22},
      year = {2005},
      abstract = {We test the effect of minimum lot zoning on rural-to-urban  land use conversion using Regression Discontinuity Design  (RDD), a technique that exploits natural discontinuities in  the data to identify causal effects.  Observations are  drawn from either size of a discontinuous minimum lot size  zoning boundary.  Using these selected sub-samples, a  binary discrete choice model of residential land use change  is estimated using parcel-level data and other spatially  explicit data from an exurban county that lies on the  fringes of Cleveland, Ohio.  Results show that controlling  for unobserved correlation in the data clearly identifies a  negative and significant effect of larger minimum lot size  zoning on the probability of conversion to a residential  use.},
      url = {http://ageconsearch.umn.edu/record/19258},
      doi = {https://doi.org/10.22004/ag.econ.19258},
}