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MWITA-BAO-2026-002 · Evidence A · P1

For Aunt Jemima/Pearl Milling pancake mix, removing the character image alone produced a bounded-null willingness-to-pay response, whereas changing the name reduced willingness to pay by more than 30% and simulated choice share by more than 20 percentage points; an explanatory message mitigated much of the loss.

What this does not establish

One politically salient grocery rebrand and hypothetical incentive-compatible choice tasks; not observed store sales, recall, market value or evidence that every legacy-name change causes loss.

Counterevidence & uncertainty

Visual removal alone was null while the name change was costly, and explanation attenuated the penalty; treating all elements of a rebrand as one effect is unsupported.

What would change the reading

Track replication, revised records, denominators, confidence intervals, channel changes and realized behavioral or commercial outcomes.

Primary routes

  1. BAO-S002https://doi.org/10.1017/aae.2024.25Open source record →

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