Ying (Jessica) Cao
PhD
Assistant Professor, Division of Health Services Policy and Practice
Research Topics/Projects
Health economics; behavioral economics; experimental economics; decision-making in health and healthcare; health services policy and practice; cost-benefit analysis. Projects involve economics of food and nutrition; consumer choices and household decisions on health service utilization and healthcare facility selection; and market demand for and effect of health insurance.
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Selected Publications
- Quattrin, T., Cao, Y., Paluch, R., Roemmich, J. N., Ecker, M. A., and Epstein, L. H. 2017. “Cost Effectiveness of Family-based Obesity Treatment.” Pediatrics, forthcoming.
- Hailu G, Cao Y, Yu X. Risk Attitudes, Social Interactions, and the Willingness to Pay for Genotyping in Dairy Production. Canadian Journal of Agricultural Economics. 2017;65(2):317-341.
- Cao Y, Cranfield J, Widowski T. Position-Dependent order effects on the prediction of consumer preferences in repeated choice experiments. Applied Economics. 2017; May 4:1-16.
- Cao Y, Turvey C, Ma J, Kong R, He G, Yan J. Incentive mechanisms, loan decisions and policy rationing: A framed field experiment on rural credit. Agricultural Finance Review. 2016;76(3):326-347.
- Cao Y, Just DR, Turvey C, Wansink B. Funky Chicken: Temporary Quality Failures Influence Heavy Users the Least. J Behav Health. 2016;5(1):17-27.
- Cao Y, Just DR, Turvey C, Wansink B. Existing Food Habits and Recent Choices Lead to Disregard of Food Safety Announcements. Canadian Journal of Agricultural Economics. 2015;63(4):491-511.
- Turvey C, Xu X, Kong R, Cao Y. Attitudinal Asymmetries and the Lender-Borrower Relationship: Survey Results on Farm Lending in Shandong, China. J Financ Serv Res. 2014;46(2):115-135.
- Wansink B, Cao Y, Saini P, Shimizu M, Just DR. College cafeteria snack food purchases become less healthy with each passing week of the semester. Public Health Nutr. 2013;16(7):1291-1295. PMID: 23174136.
- Cao Y, Zhang Y. Hog insurance adoption and suppliers' discrimination: A bivariate probit model with partial observability. China Agricultural Economic Review. 2012;4(2):233-255.