Pith Number

pith:UB5MNY6R

pith:2025:UB5MNY6RQ63OLMG7HXTL2C6K6A

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Placebo Discontinuity Design

Moses Stewart, Rahul Singh

arxiv:2507.12693 v1 · 2025-07-16 · econ.EM · stat.ME

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{UB5MNY6RQ63OLMG7HXTL2C6K6A}

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4 Citations open

5 Replications open

✓ Portable graph bundle live · download bundle · merged state

The bundle contains the canonical record plus signed events. A mirror can host it anywhere and recompute the same current state with the deterministic merge algorithm.

Receipt and verification

First computed	2026-07-05T11:38:37.396158Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

a07ac6e3d187b6e5b0df3de6bd0bcaf03be01ae8790446d7aece8494ce780157

Aliases

arxiv: 2507.12693 · arxiv_version: 2507.12693v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2507.12693 · pith_short_12: UB5MNY6RQ63O · pith_short_16: UB5MNY6RQ63OLMG7 · pith_short_8: UB5MNY6R

Agent API

Resolver JSON Graph JSON Events JSON Schema Signing key

Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/UB5MNY6RQ63OLMG7HXTL2C6K6A \
  | jq -c '.canonical_record' \
  | python3 -c "import sys,json,hashlib; b=json.dumps(json.loads(sys.stdin.read()), sort_keys=True, separators=(',',':'), ensure_ascii=False).encode(); print(hashlib.sha256(b).hexdigest())"
# expect: a07ac6e3d187b6e5b0df3de6bd0bcaf03be01ae8790446d7aece8494ce780157

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "d2fb71b3169a19a5f88d4581129df978534a42a3b616fae541d4909faa90c5c6",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "stat.ME"
    ],
    "license": "http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/",
    "primary_cat": "econ.EM",
    "submitted_at": "2025-07-16T23:59:24Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "dc2c640e1e65082fef1deced7f047a199a17ccf714d5b497abc90d58f0ddc97b"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "2507.12693",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}