Research

Peer-reviewed Publications

Shang, C., Ma, S., & Lindblom, E. N. (2021). Tax incidence of electronic nicotine delivery systems (ENDS) in the USA. Tobacco Control. DOI: 10.1136/tobaccocontrol-2021-056774

Shi, H., Fan, M., Zhang, H., Ma, S., Wang, W., Yan, Z., Chen, Y., Fan, H. & Bi, R. (2021). Perceived health-care quality in China: a comparison of second-and third-tier hospitals. International Journal for Quality in Health Care, 33(1). DOI: 10.1093/intqhc/mzab027

Selected Working Papers

Ma, S., Jiang, S., Chen, J., Ling, M., Lu, B. & Shang, C. (2022). Excise Taxes and Pricing Activities of E-liquid Products Sold in Online Vape Shops. (Revised and resubmitted to Tobacco Control)

Ma, S., Jiang, S., Ling, M., Chen, J. & Shang, C. (2022). Price Promotions of E-liquid Products Sold in Online Stores.

Ma, S., Jiang, S., Ling, M., Bridges, J., Chen, J. & Shang, C. (2022). Expanding E-liquid Flavor Wheel: Classification of Emerging E-Liquid Flavors in Online Vape Shops.

Ma, S., Jiang, S., Ling, M., Wagener, T., Mays, D., Chen, J. & Shang, C. (2022). How E-liquid Products Are Priced Based on Product Characteristics: Evidence from Online Vape Shops.

Ma, S., Ling, M., Li, R., Chen, J., Jiang, S. & Shang, C. (2022). DeepTobaccoWorks: An Application of Natural Language Processing (NLP) in Tobacco Research.

Upcoming Presentations

Ma, S. (2022, June 17). How to scrape online information: with application to online vape shops. Tobacco Online Policy Seminar (TOPS), virtual. (Workshop format)

Ma, S. (2022, May 25). How E-liquid Products Are Priced Based on Product Characteristics: Evidence from Online Vape Shops. The Ohio State University Center for Tobacco Research (CTR) Trainee Seminar, virtual.