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Can Anti-Vaping Policies Curb Drinking Externalities? Evidence from E-Cigarette Taxation and Traffic Fatalities

Dave, Dhaval; Liang, Yang; Maclean, Johanna Catherine; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022

and national Youth Risk Behavior Surveys, the Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance Survey, the National Survey on Drug Use …

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Losing Medicaid and Crime

Deza, Monica; Thanh Lu; Maclean, Johanna Catherine; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024

We study the impact of losing health insurance on criminal activity by leveraging one of the most substantial Medicaid disenrollments in U.S. history, which occurred in Tennessee in 2005 and lead to 190,000 non-elderly and non-disabled adults without dependents unexpectedly losing coverage....

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Promoting Public Health with Blunt Instruments : Evidence from Vaccine Mandates

Abouk, Rahi; Earle, John S.; Maclean, Johanna Catherine; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024

We study the effect of mandates requiring COVID-19 vaccination among healthcare industry workers adopted in 2021 in the United States. There are long-standing worker shortages in the U.S. healthcare industry, pre-dating the COVID-19 pandemic. The impact of COVID-19 vaccine mandates on shortages...

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Do E-Cigarette Retail Licensure Laws Reduce Tobacco Use?

Courtemanche, Charles; Liang, Yang; Maclean, Johanna … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024

. This study is the first to comprehensively explore the effect of ELL adoption on youth and adult tobacco product use. Using … data from the State Youth Risk Behavior Survey (YRBS) and a difference-in-differences approach, we find no evidence that … ELL adoption reduces overall youth ENDS use. The precision of our estimates allows us to rule out, with 95 percent …

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The Effect of E-Cigarette Flavor Bans on Tobacco Use

Cotti, Chad; Courtemanche, Charles; Liang, Yang; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024

sale of flavored electronic nicotine delivery system (ENDS) products on youth and young adult tobacco use. Using data from … the State and National Youth Risk Behavior Surveys, we find that the adoption of an ENDS flavor restriction reduces … frequent and everyday youth ENDS use by 1.2 to 2.5 percentage points. Auxiliary analyses of the Behavioral Risk Factor …

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Evictions and Psychiatric Treatment

Bradford, Ashley; Maclean, Johanna Catherine - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022

Stable housing is critical for health, employment, education, and other social outcomes. Evictions reflect a form of housing instability that is experienced by millions of Americans each year. Inadequately treated psychiatric disorders have the potential to influence evictions in several ways....

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Behavioral Health Treatment and Police Officer Safety

Deza, Monica; Thanh Lu; Maclean, Johanna Catherine; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023

We study the effect of community access to behavioral health (mental health and substance use disorders) treatment on police officer safety, which we proxy with on-duty assaults on officers. Combining agency-level data on police officer on-duty assaults and county-level data on the number of...

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Insurance Coverage and Provision of Opioid Treatment : Evidence from Medicare

Agniel, Denis; Cantor, Jonathan H.; Maclean, Johanna … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023

Opioid overdose deaths in older adults have increased substantially over the past two decades. This increase has occurred despite the availability of effective treatments. Methadone, one of just three medications approved by the Food & Drug Administration for opioid use disorder (OUD) treatment,...

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Does Paid Sick Leave Facilitate Reproductive Choice?

Maclean, Johanna Catherine; Popovici, Ioana; Ruhm, … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023

Unlike most advanced countries, the U.S. does not have a federal paid sick leave (PSL) policy; however, multiple states have adopted PSL mandates. PSL can facilitate healthcare use among women of child-bearing ages, including use of family planning services such as contraception, in-vitro...

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The Effect of E-cigarette Taxes on Substance Use

Dave, Dhaval; Liang, Yang; Maclean, Johanna Catherine; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024

Public health advocates warn that the rapid growth of legal markets for electronic nicotine delivery systems (ENDS) may generate a "gateway" to marijuana and harder drug consumption, particularly among teenagers. This study is the first to explore the effects of ENDS taxes on substance use. We...

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