Assistant Professor
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Dr. Wang is a health economist with research interest in economic analysis of tobacco use behaviors and economic evaluation of tobacco control policies. She is interested in understanding tobacco use behaviors including poly use of tobacco products, the transitions of tobacco use status, the switch between different tobacco products, evaluating the impacts of economics and health policies in vulnerable subgroups and in the general population as a whole, estimating the economic costs of secondhand smoke exposure and tobacco use including emerging tobacco products such as cigars, smokeless tobacco and e-cigarettes. She is specialized in economic and statistical modeling using secondary large population data.
Publications
Price-Responsiveness of Cigarette Smoking Behaviors across Income Groups in the United States.
Nicotine & tobacco research : official journal of the Society for Research on Nicotine and Tobacco
Smoking-Attributable Health Care Expenditures for US Adults With Chronic Lower Respiratory Disease.
JAMA network open
Changes in e-cigarette use and subsequent cigarette smoking cessation in the USA: evidence from a prospective PATH study, 2013-2018.
Tobacco control
Association between tobacco product use and respiratory health and asthma-related interference with activities among U.S. Adolescents.
Preventive medicine reports
The association of current exclusive e-cigarette use and dual use of e-cigarettes and cigarettes with psychological distress among U.S. adults.
Preventive medicine reports
Healthcare utilisation and expenditures attributable to current e-cigarette use among US adults.
Tobacco control
The association of California's Proposition 56 tobacco tax increase with smoking behavior across racial and ethnic groups and by income.
Nicotine & tobacco research : official journal of the Society for Research on Nicotine and Tobacco
Differential price-responsiveness of smoking behaviors among non-Hispanic African Americans and non-Hispanic whites in the United States.
Addiction (Abingdon, England)
Healthcare Utilization of Menthol and Non-menthol Cigarette Smokers.
Nicotine & tobacco research : official journal of the Society for Research on Nicotine and Tobacco
Effects of cigarette prices on intention to quit, quit attempts, and successful cessation among African American smokers.
Nicotine & tobacco research : official journal of the Society for Research on Nicotine and Tobacco
Smoking Behavior in Low- and High-Income Adults Immediately Following California Proposition 56 Tobacco Tax Increase.
American Journal of Public Health
Healthcare Costs of Secondhand Smoke Exposure at Home for U.S. Children.
American journal of preventive medicine
Healthcare Utilization and Expenditures Attributable to Smokeless Tobacco Use among US Adults.
Nicotine & tobacco research : official journal of the Society for Research on Nicotine and Tobacco
Polytobacco Use and Nicotine Dependence Symptoms Among US Adults, 2012-2014.
Nicotine & tobacco research : official journal of the Society for Research on Nicotine and Tobacco
Infrequent and Frequent Nondaily Smokers and Daily Smokers: Their Characteristics and Other Tobacco Use Patterns.
Nicotine & tobacco research : official journal of the Society for Research on Nicotine and Tobacco
Health Care Utilization and Expenditures Attributable to Cigar Smoking Among US Adults, 2000-2015.
Public health reports (Washington, D.C. : 1974)
Healthcare costs attributable to secondhand smoke exposure at home for U.S. adults.
Preventive medicine
Factors associated with short-term transitions of non-daily smokers: socio-demographic characteristics and other tobacco product use.
Addiction (Abingdon, England)
Sociodemographic Differences Among U.S. Children and Adults Exposed to Secondhand Smoke at Home: National Health Interview Surveys 2000 and 2010.
Public health reports (Washington, D.C. : 1974)
Polytobacco Use of Cigarettes, Cigars, Chewing Tobacco, and Snuff Among US Adults.
Nicotine & tobacco research : official journal of the Society for Research on Nicotine and Tobacco