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CSDE Research Areas:

• Health of People and Populations
• Wellbeing of Families and Households

In the News:

• 15 CSDE Affiliates Part of 9 Teams Receiving UW Population Health Initiative Awards (6/26/2020)
• Affiliates Jones-Smith, Knox, Oddo and CSDE Scientist Hurvitz co-author Study on Seattle’s Sweetened Beverage Tax (8/16/2020)
• Congratulations to the Best Poster Award Winners! (12/17/2020)
• CSDE Affiliates Awarded Data Science Course Development Grants from UW’s Division of Social Sciences & the Data Science Initiative! (5/17/2021)
• Melissa Knox and Jessica Jones-Smith Win PAA Poster Session on Health and Mortality (4/15/2019)
• Melissa Knox Awarded CHTF Pilot Grant (9/12/2017)
• Melissa Knox Finds Positive Impacts of the Seattle Food Access Programs on Farmers and the Farm Economy (5/21/2019)
• Melissa Knox, Jessica Jones-Smith, and Vanessa Oddo Analyze Public Perception of Seattle’s Soda Tax (6/29/2019)
• New Research on the Effects of the Seattle Sweetened Beverage Tax from Fretts, Knox, Jones-Smith, and Colleagues (3/4/2022)
• New Research from Knox, Jones-Smith, and Colleagues Further Evaluates the Effects of Seattle’s Sweetened Beverage Tax (5/6/2022)
• Jones-Smith, Knox, Hurvitz, Hamilton, and Colleagues Publish New Research in Food Policy (6/23/2022)
• CSDE Affiliates Knox and Jones-Smith Awarded Grant from the Royalty Research Fund! (9/2/2022)
• New Study on Availability and Price of Healthy Food in Seattle by Knox and Co-Authors (12/3/2022)
• Knox Delivers New Publication on Employment and Health in the US During COVID-19 Pandemic (1/29/2023)

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Melissa Knox’s research focuses on the economic and health impacts of increased access to health care services and health-promoting technologies, including pharmaceuticals. She is also interested in the role that health and health care access play in the structure and function of the family, especially with regards to fertility and childhood investment decisions. Recently, she has investigated the impacts of Mexico’s universal health insurance program, Seguro Popular, on health, education, and labor market participation. She is also currently working on a model of the impact of sex ratio imbalances on the marriage market in China.