Papers

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Nutrition

Anna Localio, Melissa A. Knox, Anirban Basu, Tom Lindman, Lina Walkinshaw, and Jessica Jones-Smith, Universal Free School Meals Policies and Childhood Obesity Pediatrics, March 2024.

Leah Neff Warner, Lina Pinero Walkinshaw, Vanessa Oddo, Melissa A. Knox, Philip Hurvitz, Anita Rocha, Nadine Chan, Brian E. Saelens, and Jessica C. Jones-Smith. The Availability and Price of Healthy Food in Seattle by Neighborhood Sociodemographic Characteristics. Preventing Chronic Disease, volume 19, 2022.

Sweetened Beverage Taxes

Jessica C Jones-Smith, Melissa Knox, Suman Chakrabarti, Jamie Wallace, Lina Walkinshaw, Stephen J Mooney, Jessica Godwin, David E. Arterburn, Joanna Eavey, Nadine Chan, and Brian E. Saelens, Sweetened Beverage Tax Implementation and Change in Body Mass Index Among Children in Seattle. JAMA Network Open, May 2024.

Nicole Asa, Melissa Knox, Vanessa Oddo, Lina Pinero Walkinshaw, Brian Saelens, Nadine Chan, and Jessica Jones-Smith, Seattle’s Sweetened Beverage Tax Implementation and Changes in Interior Marketing Displays. Journal of Public Health Policy, 2023.

Lauren Sawyer, Vanessa M. Oddo, Amanda Fretts, Melissa A. Knox, Nadine Chan, Brian E. Saelens, and Jessica C. Jones-Smith. Impacts of the Seattle Sweetened Beverage Tax on the Perceived Healthfulness of Sweetened Beverages. Nutrients, volume 14, 2022.

Vanessa M. Oddo, Melissa Knox, Lina Pinero Walkinshaw, Brian E. Saelens, Nadine Chan, and Jessica C. Jones-Smith. Evaluation of Seattle’s Sweetened Beverage Tax on Tax Support and Perceived Economic and Health Impacts. Preventive Medicine Reports, Volume 27, 2022.

Jessica C. Jones-Smith, Melissa A. Knox, Norma B. Coe, Lina P. Walkinshaw, John Schoof, Deven Hamilton, Philip M. Hurvitz, James Krieger, Sweetened Beverage Taxes: Economic Benefits and Costs According to Household Income, Food Policy, Volume 110, 2022.

Vanessa M. Oddo, Melissa A. Knox, Lina Pinero Walkinshaw, Brian E. Saelens, Nadine Chan, Jessica C. Jones-Smith, Evaluation of Seattle’s Sweetened Beverage Tax on tax support and perceived economic and health impacts, Preventive Medicine Reports, Volume 27, 2022.

Lauren Sawyer, Vanessa M. Oddo, Amanda Fretts, Melissa A. Knox, Nadine Chan,Brian E. Saelens, and Jessica C. Jones-Smith. Impacts of the Seattle Sweetened Beverage Tax on the Perceived Healthfulness of Sweetened Beverages. Nutrients, Volume 14, 2022.

Jessica C. Jones-Smith, Lina Pinero Walkinshaw, Vanessa M. Oddo, Melissa Knox, Marian L. Neuhouser, Philip M. Hurvitz, Brian E. Saelens, Nadine Chan, Impact of a Sweetened Beverage Tax on Beverage Prices in Seattle, WA, Economics & Human Biology, Volume 39, 2020. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ehb.2020.100917

Melissa A. Knox, Vanessa M. Oddo, Lina Pinero Walkinshaw, Jessica Jones-Smith, Is the Public Sweet on Sugary Beverages? Social Desirability Bias and Sweetened Beverage Taxes, Economics & Human Biology, Volume 38, 2020. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ehb.2020.100886

Oddo, V.M., Krieger, J., Knox, M. et al. Perceptions of the Possible Health and Economic Impacts of Seattle’s Sugary Beverage Tax. BMC Public Health 19, 910 (2019). https://doi.org/10.1186/s12889-019-7133-2

Working Papers

Melissa Knox and Jessica Jones-Smith. Consumption Responses to Sweetened Beverage Taxes by Household Income (Status: Resubmitted)

Leah Neff Warner, Melissa Knox, Amanda Fretts, Brian Saelens, and Jessica Jones-Smith, Investigation of Spillover Effects of a Sugar-Sweetened Beverage Tax on Beverage Purchasing in a Nearby, Non-Taxed Area: A Quasi-Experimental, Difference-in-Differences Analysis. (Status: Resubmitted)

Melissa Knox, Vanessa Oddo, Lina Pinero Walkinshaw, Jessica C. Jones-Smith. Tax Salience and Tax Pass Through in Sweetened Beverage Taxes.

Other Research

Abby Schamp, Hem Morzaria-Luna, Christopher Anderson, Melissa Knox. Tourist Preferences for Whale Watching and Rule Changes in the Salish Sea. (Status: Revise and Resubmit)

Atwood, Alicia and Emerson, Tisha L. N. and Knox, Melissa A. and Taznin, Mahjuja M., Online Platforms for Classroom Experiments: A Primer for New Adoptees, The Journal of Economic Education, Vol 54, No 4, October 2023.

Vanessa M. Oddo, Jessica C. Jones-Smith, and Melissa A. Knox. Changes in Precarious Employment and Health in the United States Amidst the COVID-19 Pandemic. Preventive Medicine Reports, volume 31, page 102113, 2023.

Melissa Knox, Creating a Preference for Prevention: The Role of Universal Health Care in the Demand for Preventive Care among Mexico’s Vulnerable Populations, Health Policy and Planning, Volume 33, Issue 7, September 2018, Pages 853–860. https://doi.org/10.1093/heapol/czy062

Campos-Vázquez, Raymundo M.; Knox, Melissa A. Social Protection Programs and Employment: The Case of Mexico’s Seguro Popular Program, Economía Mexicana. Nueva Época, vol. XXII, núm. 2, 2013, pp. 403-448.