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Shaoying Ma

Medicine · The Ohio State University

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Early career · publishing since 2017Rising activity
Smoking Behavior and CessationConsumer Market Behavior and PricingConsumer Attitudes and Food LabelingEconomics of Agriculture and Food MarketsObesity, Physical Activity, Diet

Publications

33

Citations

183

Est. group size

~13

Recurring co-author estimate

Active years

10

Publishing since 2017

Research summary
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Shaoying Ma studies how prices, taxes, and product features influence consumer behavior around tobacco, e-cigarettes, and cannabis, using economic methods like choice experiments and market data analysis. This work informs public health policy debates about how tax design can shape use of nicotine and cannabis products, particularly among youth and young adults. Earlier work also touched on health-care quality, income inequality, and paid sick leave policy.

Tobacco and e-cigarette taxation and pricingCannabis policy and consumption behaviorHealth economics and consumer choice modelingHealth-care quality and accessHousehold economics and social policy

Publication output was minimal before 2021 but has grown substantially since, with a notably higher and fairly steady pace of output from 2022 through 2025.

Generated by claude-sonnet-5 from public bibliographic data · Jul 20, 2026

Publication cadence
Publications per year over the last 10 years — averaging 5.8/year recently
2017: 1 publication1718192020: 1 publication202021: 2 publications212022: 3 publications222023: 8 publications8232024: 7 publications242025: 8 publications8252026: 3 publications26
Recent publications
Publishes in
  • Tobacco Control×4
  • Nicotine & Tobacco Research×4
  • Preventive Medicine Reports×4
  • PLoS ONE×3
  • JMIR Formative Research×3
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Last updated Jul 19, 2026.

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