Welcome! I am an Assistant Professor in the Economics Department at the United States Naval Academy. I received my PhD from the Department of Agricultural and Resource Economics at UC Berkeley.

 

I am an applied microeconomist with broad research interests in consumer behavior, the economics of health, food, and nutrition, public economics, and labor economics. Much of my research focuses on policy evaluation using applied econometric methods designed for causal inference. I have published research examining the economics of sugar-sweetened beverage taxes, genetically modified foods, COVID-19, and the economics of superstars.

 

In my free time I enjoy cooking, reading science fiction, tennis, basketball, and skiing.

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email: skaplan [at] usna [dot] edu