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Modulating Placebo Effects in Clinical Trials: Study Team Briefing to Optimize Drug–Placebo Differences

Clinical and Translational Science
Clinical trials often face challenges with placebo effects that can mask actual drug effects. We evaluated whether briefing the study team members on placebo mechanisms influenced analgesia.
Martin Coenen, Ulrike Bingel, Maria Soledad Berdaguer, Christine Fuhrmann, Robert Németh, Jens Rengelshausen, Gunther Hartmann, Christoph Coch, Manfred Schedlowski   +8 more
doaj   +1 more source

Do Tax Incentives for Farmland Leases Increase Farm Supply? Evidence From Iowa's Beginning Farmer Tax Credit

Applied Economic Perspectives and Policy, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT In recent decades, agriculture has become increasingly concentrated through horizontal mergers and acquisitions via corporate entities, and policy makers are concerned this will be exacerbated by the aging population of farm operators. To reduce market concentration in agriculture, many states have enacted policies to entice new prospective ...
Justin M. Ross, Wesley M. Zebrowski, Julia C. D. Valliant   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Unpacking the Farmland Capitalization Effect of Ethanol Establishment

Applied Economic Perspectives and Policy, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT We unpack the impact of expansions in ethanol production—as measured by proximity to newly constructed ethanol plants and capacity expansions—on farmland values using land transaction data from Kansas in combination with modern causal inference techniques.
Gabriel S. Sampson, Jisang Yu
wiley   +1 more source

Growth of Omnichannel Grocery Retailing and Food Prices

Agribusiness, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This paper examines the effects of the growth of omnichannel grocery retailing on food prices. We first develop a conceptual model of consumer choice and retailer pricing that allows us to evaluate changes in equilibrium prices, quantities, and profits with online channel growth and alternative pricing strategies.
Xiangwen Kong, Metin Çakır, Qingxiao Li   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Is placebo analgesia for heat pain a sensory effect? An exploratory study on minimizing the influence of response bias

Neurobiology of Pain, 2019
We explored the ongoing question of whether placebo analgesia alters afferent nociceptive processing in a novel paradigm designed to minimize the role of response bias in placebo measurement.
Laura K. Case, Claire M. Laubacher, Emily A. Richards, Matthew Grossman, Lauren Y. Atlas, Scott Parker, M. Catherine Bushnell   +6 more
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Exploring the Impact of Meat Alternative Labeling Regulations on the U.S. Meat Consumption Patterns

Agribusiness, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The global demand for conventional meat continues to rise, but it is also associated with substantial environmental and health challenges. In response, meat alternatives have gained popularity, sparking debates over meat alternative labeling regulations. This study investigates the effects of meat alternative labeling regulations in the United
Jeong Hun Ji, Sang Hyeon Lee
wiley   +1 more source

Do cognitive bias and heuristics influence improvement in knee pain in patients with knee osteoarthritis treated with open label placebo? The CHIPS study - An exploratory study using questionnaire and group concept mapping

Osteoarthritis and Cartilage Open
Objective: This study explored if the patient-experience and the affect heuristic influenced improvements in painful symptoms, in response to open label placebo injections in patients with knee OA.
Tommy Kok Annfeldt, Elisabeth Ginnerup-Nielsen, Eva Elisabeth Wæhrens, Lene Vase, Lars Erik Kristensen, Tanja Schjødt Jørgensen   +5 more
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Do Politically Motivated Import Bans Leave Lasting Scars? Evidence From Australian–Chinese Beef Trade

Agribusiness, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT In May 2020, China abruptly suspended imports from several major Australian beef processors, escalating a diplomatic dispute between the two countries. This trade measure disrupted one of the largest beef export relationships in the world almost overnight.
K. Aleks Schaefer, Youngjune Kim
wiley   +1 more source

Do More Open Economies Export Less Diversely in Brazilian Agribusiness?

Agribusiness, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This paper asks whether municipalities with a larger export‐to‐revenue ratio display a more concentrated bundle of exported goods in Brazilian agribusiness. Recent advances in export imputation for Brazilian municipalities allow for an analysis of the concentration profile of each municipality and its association with export openness.
Alan Leal, Michelle Marcia Viana Martins
wiley   +1 more source

The concept of placebo/nocebo response and effect

EULAR Rheumatology Open
: The placebo response is different from the placebo effect. Whereas the placebo response is the global response to a placebo, including spontaneous remission, regression to the mean, patients’ and experimenters’ biases, possible effects of ...
Fabrizio Benedetti
doaj   +1 more source