Xu L., Zhang S., Shang C. (2026). How Cannabis Advertising and Promotion Shape Early Use: A National Study of Adolescents and Young Adults. Substance Use and Misuse. In press.
Xu, L., Feizy, S., Roberts, M.E., Shang, C., Keller-Hamilton, B., Mays, D., Rose, S.W., & He, Y. (2026). Urban-rural disparities in oral nicotine pouch sales and flavors in the United States. The International journal on drug policy, 150, 105178. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.drugpo.2026.105178
Xu L., He Y., Park H., Zhang S., Ma S., Shang C. (2025). How Tax Structures Shape Youth Cannabis Use: Evidence from a Volumetric Choice Experiment on Pricing, Potency, and Product Substitution. European Journal of Health Economics. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10198-025-01875-3
Chung S., Xu L. (2025). Impact of Sugar-Sweetened Beverages Tax on Obesity and Obesity-Related Health Conditions: Evidence from Washington State’s Soft Drink Syrup Tax. Health Econ Rev 15, 92. https://doi.org/10.1186/s13561-025-00664-1 (Corresponding author)
Xu L., Plakias Z., Hanks A.S., Garner J. (2024). Food insecurity, fruit and vegetable consumption, and use of the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) in Appalachian Ohio. PLOS ONE 19(2): e0295171. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0295171
Xu, L., Li, R. and Roe, B. (2024), "Frozen food purchasing and home freezing of fresh foods: associations with household food waste", British Food Journal. https://doi.org/10.1108/BFJ-02-2024-0147
Zhang Z., Hanna S.D., & Xu L. (2024). The effect of financial knowledge on workers’ expectation of never retiring. Financial Services Review, 32(3). https://doi.org/10.61190/fsr.v32i3.3584
Under Revision
Xu L., Zhang S., Meng L., Shang C. "The Association between Sociodemographic factors and co-use of cigars or cigarillos with cannabis" (Revised and Resubmitted to Substance Use and Misuse)
Xu L., Zhang S., Elsaid M., Shang C. "Youth Perceptions of Cannabis: Social Acceptability, Physical Risk, and Addictiveness in a National Survey" (Revised and Resubmitted to Substance Use and Misuse) [Link]
Roe B.E., Xu L., Martin C.K., Apolzan J.W. “Predicting Curbside Food Waste from Responses to Self-Administered Surveys: An Application of Machine Learning to Improve Household Measurement” (Revised and Resubmitted to Waste Management)
He Y., Xu L., Park H., Ma S., Shang C. “The impact of various tax bases and rates on cannabis consumption among US adults who use recreational cannabis - A volumetric choice experiment to evaluate impact of tax-related factors and cross-from price elasticities” (Revised and Resubmitted to Health Economics) [Link]
Xu L., Zhang Z., Shang C. “The Demand for Cigarettes and E-Cigarettes (ECs) among EC Adult Users in the US: Exploring Price and Expenditure Elasticities Using a Demand System Approach” (Revised and Resubmitted to BMC Public Health) [Link]
Chung S., Xu L. "Immigration on native’s fertility: Challenge against 'Great Replacement'" (Revised and Resubmitted to Demographic Research)
He Y., Zettler P.J., Berman M.L., Xu L., Shang C. “Excise Taxes of Oral Nicotine Pouches in the United States” (Revise and Resubmit to Tobacco Control)
Under Review
Xu L. “Household Food Waste Patterns: Exploring Categorical Price and Expenditure Elasticities Using a Demand System Approach” (Under Review at JAAEA). [Link]
Xu L., Zhang S., Shang C. “Modeling U.S. Cannabis Demand: A Two-Stage Budgeting Approach to Consumer Choice” (Under Review at Health Economics Review) [Link]
Xu L., Zhang S., Su K., Shang C. “Does Legalization Increase Legal Cannabis Purchases? New Evidence from a Difference-in-difference Method” (Under Review at International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health)
Xu L., Zhang S., Ma S., Plascak J., Paskett E., Shang C. “State Cannabis Policy Environments and Perceived Accessibility Among U.S. Adolescents and Young Adults” (Under Review at Cannabis and Cannabinoid Research)
In Preparation for Submission
Xu L., Zhang S., Shang C. “The Economic Burden of Cannabis in The U.S.: A multidimensional Analysis of Price, Affordability, and Socioeconomic Disparities” (Target Journal: International Journal of Drug Policy) [Link]
Xu L., Zhang S., Su K., Shang C. “The associations between state regulations and Exposure to Multichannel Cannabis Advertising Among U.S. Adolescents and Young Adult” (Target Journal: JAMA Pediatrics)
Xu L., Plakias Z. “The Market Impacts of Farm to School Procurement” (Target Journal: Food Policy)
Selected Works in Progress
“A Calibration Approach to Hypothetical Bias: Combining Stated and Revealed Preferences in Cannabis Market Modeling” with Shaoying Ma, Shiqi Zhang, and Ce Shang (Target journal: Health Economics)
“Food Firms’ Productivity and Impacts of Weather Using Multi Country Panel Data” with Alexis Villacis (Target journal: American Journal of Agricultural Economics)
“Healthy Food, Health Farms? Implications of Healthy Food Policies for Agricultural Value Chains” with Zoë Plakias and Seung-Hun Chung (Target journal: Food Policy)
"Estimating the Cross-Tax Elasticity of Tobacco Demand with respect to Cannabis Taxation in the US: Using NielsenIQ Retail Scanner Data" with Hojin Park, Yanyun He, Zezhong Zhang, and Ce Shang (Target journal: Journal of Studies on Alcohol and Drugs)