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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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Further Evidence on the Global Decline in the Mental Health of the Young

Blanchflower, David G.; Bryson, Alex; Lepinteur, Anthony; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024

Prior to around 2011, there was a pronounced curvilinear relationship between age and wellbeing: poor mental health was hump-shaped with respect to age, whilst subjective well-being was U-shaped. We examine data from a European panel for France, Germany, Italy, Spain and Sweden called,...

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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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Unions, wages and hours

Blanchflower, David G.; Bryson, Alex - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024

We examine union-non-union differentials in wages and hours in the United States over the last 50 years using data from the Current Population Survey (CPS). The regression-adjusted difference between union members' and non-members' hourly earnings has been falling since the Great Recession. The...

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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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Long Covid in the United States

Blanchflower, David G.; Bryson, Alex - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023

Although yet to be clearly identified as a clinical condition, there is immense concern at the health and wellbeing consequences of long COVID. Using data collected from nearly half a million Americans in the period June 2022-December 2022 in the US Census Bureau's Household Pulse Survey (HPS),...

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Wellbeing Rankings

Blanchflower, David G.; Bryson, Alex - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022

Combining data on around four million respondents from the Gallup World Poll and the US Daily Tracker Poll we rank 164 countries, the 50 states of the United States and the District of Colombia on eight wellbeing measures. These are four positive affect measures - life satisfaction, enjoyment,...

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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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