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Placebo Tests

Placebo Tests is a methodological technique in causal inference that consists of applying a purportedly valid identification strategy to an outcome or threshold known to be unaffected by the treatment, thereby serving as a falsification test to assess the credibility of estimated effects in natural experiments or regression discontinuity designs.

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992

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506

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Placebo Testing

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Publications

356

Are the clinical effects of homoeopathy placebo effects? A meta-analysis of placebo-controlled trials

Klaus Linde, N. Clausius, Gilbert Ramı́rez et al. · The Lancet · 1997 · 994 citations

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Corporate Debt Maturity and the Real Effects of the 2007 Credit Crisis

Heiter Almeida · Critical Finance Review · 2012 · 568 citations

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Getting the pain you expect: mechanisms of placebo, nocebo and reappraisal effects in humans

Irene Tracey · Nature Medicine · 2010 · 555 citations

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Shift-Share Designs: Theory and Inference*

The Quarterly Journal of Economics · 2019 · 538 citations · Full text

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Ethical Complexities of Conducting Research in Developing Countries

Harold Varmus, D Satcher · New England Journal of Medicine · 1997 · 430 citations · Full text

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Authors

992

  1. AK
    Arthur K. Shapiro

    Cornell University, United States

    5 publications · 299 citations

    5

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  2. RG
    Robert Gold

    Kiel Institute for the World Economy, Germany

    3 publications · 335 citations

    3

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  3. TJ
    Theodore Joyce

    Baruch College, United States

    3 publications · 106 citations

    3

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  4. FG
    Franklin G. Miller

    National Institutes of Health, United States

    3 publications · 110 citations

    3

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  5. CP
    Connie Peck

    La Trobe University, Australia

    3 publications · 641 citations

    3

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Institutions

506

  1. University of Chicago

    Chicago, United States

    11 h-index

    15 publications

    1.9K citations

  2. Princeton University

    Princeton, United States

    9 h-index

    13 publications

    960 citations

  3. Yale University

    New Haven, United States

    9 h-index

    15 publications

    1.4K citations

  4. Harvard University

    Cambridge, United States

    8 h-index

    17 publications

    991 citations

  5. Cornell University

    Ithaca, United States

    7 h-index

    15 publications

    919 citations

  6. University of Oxford

    Oxford, United Kingdom

    6 h-index

    14 publications

    2.2K citations

  7. National Bureau of Economic Research

    Cambridge, United States

    6 h-index

    12 publications

    1.3K citations

  8. The University of Sydney

    Sydney, Australia

    5 h-index

    9 publications

    356 citations

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  1. SSRN Electronic Journal

    Repository · 23 publications · 882 citations

    15

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  2. PubMed

    Repository · 15 publications · 454 citations

    12

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  3. Pain

    5 publications · 744 citations

    5

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  4. Allergy

    3 publications · 75 citations

    3

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  5. British Journal of Political Science

    3 publications · 87 citations

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