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In-Person Schooling and Youth Suicide : Evidence from School Calendars and Pandemic School Closures

Hansen, Benjamin; Sabia, Joseph J.; Schaller, Jessamyn - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022

This study explores the effect of in-person schooling on youth suicide. We document three key findings. First, using … experience increases in teen suicides in August, while areas with schools starting in September don't see youth suicides rise … queries and the Youth Risk Behavior Survey suggests that bullying victimization may be an important mechanism …

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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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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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Minimum Wages and Poverty : New Evidence from Dynamic Difference-in-Differences Estimates

Burkhauser, Richard V.; McNichols, Drew; Sabia, Joseph J. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023

Advocates of minimum wage increases have long touted their potential to reduce poverty. This study assesses this claim. Using data spanning nearly four decades from the March Current Population Survey, and a dynamic difference-in-differences approach, we find that a 10 percent increase in the...

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Mandatory Seatbelt Laws and Traffic Fatalities : A Reassessment

Anderson, D. Mark; Liang, Yang; Sabia, Joseph J. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023

Using data from the Fatality Analysis Reporting System for the period 1983-1997, Cohen and Einav (Review of Economics and Statistics 2003; 85(4): 828-843) found that mandatory seatbelt laws were associated with a 4 to 6 percent reduction in traffic fatalities among motor vehicle occupants. After...

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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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