Daniel
Carpenter
Research
on Placebo Effects and Placebo Learning
I am
currently (and slowly) engaged in a project which examines the economic,
scientific, political and regulatory implications of placebo effects. I have
developed several models of placebo learning where an uncertain agent subject
to placebo effects chooses (according to subjective dynamic optimality) among
several treatments. For now, these are theoretical insights only, and the
models could stand much further elaboration. This project has been supported in
part by the National Science Foundation (SES-0076452) and by the Institute for
Quantitative Social Science at
Papers
[comments and
corrections are welcome]
A Simple Model
of Placebo Learning with Self-Remitting Diseases
A
General Model of Placebo Learning: How Increasing Consumer Options can Heighten
Bias and Reduce Welfare [under construction]
Placebo
Learning in Continuous Space and Time [under construction]