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Scott Kaplan

@skaplan92.bsky.social

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Economics professor @ US Naval Academy | applied micro, food policy, health, public, labor | Berkeley ARE alum | 🏀 🎿🎾⛳️ | views my own www.scottkaplan.org

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Scott Kaplan @skaplan92.bsky.social · 24/07/2025

New #HealthAffairsForefront policy piece today on designing (more) effective sugar-sweetened beverage taxes. Sofia and I discuss tax avoidance behavior and designing taxes directly targeting the harm-generating ingredient. healthaffairs.org/content/forefront/improve-sugar-sweetened-beverage-taxes

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Scott Kaplan @skaplan92.bsky.social · 20/03/2025

Happy hoops day 🏀🏀

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Scott Kaplan @skaplan92.bsky.social · 21/11/2024

For those at #2024APPAM and interested in tax and other pricing policies for unhealthy products, there is a great lineup of presenters and discussants on Saturday at 10:15 in National Harbor 15. Hope to see you there (or around the conference in general)!

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Scott Kaplan @skaplan92.bsky.social · 18/11/2024

Post a picture you took (no description) to bring some zen to the timeline

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Scott Kaplan @skaplan92.bsky.social · 07/11/2024

Excited to share @justinwhite.bsky.social and I’s latest working paper! “Taxing Volume, Targeting Sugar: A Framework and Empirical Assessment of Excise Taxes on Sugar-Sweetened Beverages." Link to full paper: drive.google.com/file/d/151Cp... Comments are welcome and appreciated. Abstract 👇

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Nayoung Rim @nayoungrim.bsky.social · 08/02/2024

🚨 Call for Papers 🚨 The Liberal Arts Colleges Public and Labor Economics Virtual Seminar is starting Spring 2024! First Friday of every month from 12:30-1:30 pm ET. Submit your extended abstracts by March 1: forms.gle/Z6uAv4GaGyjk... For more information: drive.google.com/file/d/1PFZD...

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Scott Kaplan @skaplan92.bsky.social · 25/01/2024

🚨 New paper published in JAMA Health Forum showing the broad effectiveness of sugar-sweetened beverage (SSB) taxes in the US! Co-authored with a great team: Justin White, Kristine Madsen, Sanjay Basu, Sofia Villas-Boas, and Dean Schillinger. 🚨 Link: jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...

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Changes in Prices and Purchases Following Implementation of Sugar-Sweetened Beverage Taxes

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Scott Kaplan @skaplan92.bsky.social · 05/01/2024

If ASSA meetings could continue to happen in NBA cities, that would be great. #ASSA2024

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Scott Kaplan @skaplan92.bsky.social · 03/01/2024

Going to #ASSA2024 and interested in food & nutrition? Attend our AAEA-sponsored session titled "Evaluating the Medium- and Longer-Term Health and Economic Impacts of Sugar-Sweetened Beverage Taxes" featuring 3 excellent papers + discussants! Fri 12:30-2:15pm in Hyatt Mission B. #EconSky

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