Selected Publications
Underline denotes current or former student
Dollar Stores and Food Access
Feng, W., Page, E. T., Sun, B., & Cash, S. B. (2025). The Healthfulness of Foods Purchased at Dollar Stores: Insights from Household Scanner Data from 2008 to 2020. Journal of the Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics, 125(11), 1736-1745.e6. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jand.2025.07.001
Feng, W., Barry, N., Mazure, M., Page., E., Blumenthal, C., Cash, S. B. (2025) Dollar Stores as Food Retailers in the United States: A Scoping Review. Preventive Medicine, 196. 108295. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ypmed.2025.108295
Feng, W., Fromkin, H., Harney, J. B., Evans, R., Gerrity, C. M., & Cash, S. B. (2024). Perspective: Food Access at Dollar Stores and its Implications for Public Health: Report of a Workshop on Identifying Research Priorities. Advances in Nutrition, 100319. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.advnut.2024.100319
Feng, W., Page, E. T., & Cash, S. B. (2023). Dollar Stores and Food Access for Rural Households in the United States, 2008‒2020. American Journal of Public Health, 113(3), 331–336. https://doi.org/10.2105/AJPH.2022.307193
Social Safety Net Policies
Fox, A., Feng, W., & Reynolds, M. (2026). Which US States Are Most Generous in Their Medicaid Policies and Why? Journal of Health Politics, Policy and Law, 12461763. https://doi.org/10.1215/03616878-12461763
Feng, W., & Fox, A. M. (2022). What’s the Hold Up? The FDA’s Delayed Implementation of Menu-Labeling Policy. Administration & Society, 54(6), 1045–1088. https://doi.org/10.1177/00953997211050308
Feng, W., Lischko, A., Martin, E. G., Skeer, M., Kaplan, A., Wang, Y., & Stopka, T. J. (2022). Who Are the Local Policy Innovators? Cluster Analysis of Municipal Tobacco Control Policies in Massachusetts. Journal of Public Health Management and Practice: JPHMP. https://doi.org/10.1097/PHH.0000000000001649
Acevedo, A., Feng, W., Corlin, L., Allen, J., Levine, P., Stopka, T. (2022) Experiences with and Impact of the COVID-19 Pandemic in the United States Differences by Substance Use Disorder Status, 2020. PLOS One. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0271788
Fox, A., Feng, W., Reynolds, M. (2022) The Effect of Administrative Burden on State Safety-Net Participation: Evidence from SNAP, TANF and Medicaid. Public Administration Review. 1– 18. https://doi.org/10.1111/puar.13497
Feng, W. (2022). The Effects of Changing SNAP Work Requirement on the Health and Employment Outcomes of Able-Bodied Adults without Dependents. Journal of the American Nutrition Association, 41(3), 281–290. https://doi.org/10.1080/07315724.2021.1879692
Dong, K. R., & Feng, W. (2021). SNAP Restrictions that Punish People Formerly and Currently Under Correctional Supervision. Journal of Health Care for the Poor and Underserved, 32(2), 654–663. https://doi.org/10.1353/hpu.2021.0094
Fox, A. M., Feng, W., Zeitlin, J., & Howell, E. A. (2020). Trends In State Medicaid Eligibility, Enrollment Rules, And Benefits. Health Affairs, 39(11), 1909-1916. doi:10.1377/hlthaff.2019.01350
Feng, W., & Martin, E. G. (2020). Fighting obesity at the local level? An analysis of predictors of local health departments’ policy involvement. Preventive Medicine, 133, 106006. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ypmed.2020.106006
Fox, A., Stazyk, E., Feng, W. (2020) Administrative Easing: Rule Reduction and Medicaid Enrollment. Public Administration Review, 80:1. doi.org/10.1111/puar.13131
Fox, A., Feng, W., Asal, V. (2019) What is Driving Global Obesity Trends? Globalization or “Modernization”? Globalization and Health, 15:32. doi.org/10.1186/s12992-019-0457-y
Feng, W. & Fox, A. (2018). Menu labels, for better, and worse? Exploring socio-economic and race-ethnic differences in menu label use in a national sample. Appetite, 128223-232. doi:10.1016/j.appet.2018.06.015