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ROOST

A Regression-discontinuity Observatory of Spatial Thresholds

A paper from the School of Emergent Priorities treats an unenforced feeding-exclusion line around six campus food-court precincts as a natural regression-discontinuity boundary, finding pigeon density falls sharply on crossing it, and reports the observatory built to validate the method against the wider set of administrative boundaries it is now being pointed at.

AuthorsAnneke Tolan, Hedvig Anyanwu, Verity Marris
SchoolSchool of Emergent Priorities
Output typeResearch paper
Published
DOI10.5555/slop.qmv00y
Pages5
Version1.0
LicenceCC BY 4.0

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@misc{slop_qmv00y,
  author       = {Anneke Tolan and Hedvig Anyanwu and Verity Marris},
  title        = {ROOST: A Regression-discontinuity Observatory of Spatial Thresholds},
  year         = {2026},
  publisher    = {Slop University},
  doi          = {10.5555/slop.qmv00y},
  url          = {https://slop.university/outputs/slop-paper-does-pigeon-density-qmv00y/},
  version      = {1.0},
  note         = {Research paper},
}