Sofia Berto Villas-Boas Publications

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James Sears, Sofia B. Villas-Boas, Molly Sears, Carly Trachtman, Linlin Fan, Andrew W. Stevens. 2026. "Deniers and Compliers: Unpacking the Heterogeneous Effectiveness of U.S. Stay-at-Home Mandates During the COVID-19 Pandemic" Journal of Applied Econometrics 1–20. https://doi.org/10.1002/jae.70080.

Gilbert, Richard J. and Sofia B. Villas-Boas, 2026. "Do Patents Predict Discoveries? Implications for Innovation-Based Merger Policy,'' Journal of Dynamic Competition, https://www.worldscientific.com/worldscinet/jdc forthcoming.

Kaplan, Scott and Sofia B. Villas-Boas, 2025. “How To Improve Sugar-Sweetened Beverage Taxes,” Health Affairs - Forefront, Link.

Cardinali, Becky, Lusher, Lester, Taylor, Rebecca L. C., Villas-Boas, Sofia B., 2025.“Does Automation Reduce Stigma? The Effect of Self-checkout Register Adoption on Purchasing Decisions,” Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, volume 237: 107–126.

Altman Emily, Schillinger Dean, Villas-Boas Sofia, Schmidt L, Falbe Jen, Madsen Kristine 2024. “De-normalizing Sugar-Sweetened Beverage Consumption: Effects of Tax Measures on Social Norms and Attitudes in the California Bay Area.” BMC Public Health, volume 24, Article number: 3263.

Scott Kaplan, Justin White, Sanjay Basu, Kristine Madsen, Dean Schillinger, and Sofia B. Villas Boas. 2024. “The impact of sugar-sweetened beverage taxes on purchased volume, price pass-through, and cross-border shopping: evidence from a multi-city synthetic control approach.” JAMA Health Forum, 5(1):e234737. Link to Media Coverage.

Carrera, Mariana P., Sofia B. Villas-Boas,2023. “Generic aversion and observational learning in the over-the-counter drug market. ” American Economic Journal-Applied, vol. 15 (3): 380–410, July, Publication Link.

Braun, Mark and Villas-Boas, Sofia B. 2023. “Pollution and Fatal Traffic Accidents in California Counties.” Applied Economic Perspectives and Policy, March, 46(1): 360–385 Link to Paper.

White, Justin, Scott Kaplan, Sanjay Basu, Kristine A. Madsen, Dean Schillinger, and Sofia B. Villas-Boas, 2023. “Evaluation of the sugar-sweetened beverage tax in Oakland, United States, 2015–2019: A quasi-experimental and cost-effectiveness study.” PLOS Medicine 20(4): e1004212 (2023).https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pmed.1004212.[press: NPR (All Things Considered), NPR (Health), CNN, US News, USA Today, Scholastic News, Fox Business, Yahoo, Axios, Philadelphia Inquirer, Chicago Booth Review, Route Fifty, The Daily Californian, JAMA Medical News in Brief, Food Fix, Others]

Sears, James, J. Miguel Villas-Boas, Vasco Villas-Boas, Sofia B. Villas-Boas, 2023. “Are we #StayingHome to Flatten the Curve,” American Journal of Health Economics, 9 (1):71–95, Publication Link.