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Insurance Expansions and Children’s Use of Substance Use Disorder Treatment
Hamersma, Sarah - 2018
specialty substance use disorder (SUD) treatment use among children ages 12 to 18. We examine both private and public expansions … State Children's Health Insurance Program (SCHIP). Private expansions are generated by state laws that compel private …, lead to increases in admissions to treatment and increased insurance coverage among children in treatment. After public …
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Effects of State-Level Earned Income Tax Credit Laws in the U.S. on Maternal Health Behaviors and Infant Health Outcomes
Markowitz, Sara - 2017
The purpose of this paper is to investigate the effects of state-level Earned Income Tax Credit (EITC) laws in the U.S. on maternal health behaviors and infant health outcomes. Using multi-state, multi-year difference-in-differences analyses, we estimated effects of state EITC generosity on...
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How the Reformulation of OxyContin Ignited the Heroin Epidemic
Evans, William N. - 2018
We attribute the recent quadrupling of heroin death rates to the August, 2010 reformulation of an oft-abused prescription opioid, OxyContin. The new abuse-deterrent formulation led many consumers to substitute to an inexpensive alternative, heroin. Using structural break techniques and variation...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012028935
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Health Insurance and Traffic Fatalities : The Effects of Substance Use Disorder Parity Laws
Popovici, Ioana - 2017
Each year, approximately 10,000 individuals die in alcohol-impaired traffic crashes in the United States, while psychoactive drugs are involved in 20% of all fatal traffic crashes. In this study, we investigate whether state-specific parity laws for substance use disorder (SUD) treatment have...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012455293
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The Effect of Medical Marijuana Laws on Marijuana, Alcohol, and Hard Drug Use
Wen, Hefei - 2014
21 states and the District of Columbia currently have laws that permit marijuana use for medical purposes, often termed medical marijuana laws (MMLs). We tested the effects of MMLs adopted in seven states between 2004 and 2011 on adolescent and adult marijuana, alcohol, and hard drug use. We...
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Should Aid Reward Performance? Evidence from a Field Experiment on Health and Education in Indonesia
Olken, Benjamin A. - 2012
This paper reports an experiment in over 3,000 Indonesian villages designed to test the role of performance incentives in improving the efficacy of aid programs. Villages in a randomly-chosen one-third of subdistricts received a block grant to improve 12 maternal and child health and education...
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Prescription Drug Monitoring Programs, Opioid Abuse, and Crime
Dave, Dhaval - 2018
We study the spillover effects of prescription drug monitoring programs (PDMPs) on crime, and in the process inform how policies that restrict access to Rx opioids per se within the healthcare system would impact broader non-health domains. In response to the substantial increase in opioid use...
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The Effect of Public Insurance Expansions on Substance Use Disorder Treatment : Evidence from the Affordable Care Act
Maclean, Johanna Catherine - 2017
We examine Medicaid expansion under the Affordable Care Act (ACA) on substance use disorder (SUD) treatment utilization and financing. We couple administrative data on admissions to specialty SUD treatment and prescriptions for medications used to treat SUDs with a differences-in-differences...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012455339
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Health, Human Capital and Domestic Violence
Papageorge, Nicholas W. - 2016
We study the impact of health shocks on domestic violence and illicit drug use. We argue that health is a form of human capital that shifts incentives for risky behaviors, such as drug use, and also changes options outside of violent relationships. To estimate causal effects, we examine...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012455793
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Alcohol and Student Performance : Estimating the Effect of Legal Access
Lindo, Jason M. - 2011
We consider the effect of legal access to alcohol on student achievement. We first estimate the effect using an RD design but argue that this approach is not well suited to the research question in our setting. Our preferred approach instead exploits the longitudinal nature of the data,...
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