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Does Mandatory Diversion to Drug Treatment Eliminate Racial Disparities in the Incarceration of Drug Offenders? An Examination of California's Proposition 36

Nicosia, Nancy; MacDonald, John M.; Pacula, Rosalie Liccardo - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2012

Like other states, minorities are disproportionately represented in the California's state prison system, particularly for drug offenses. Unlike other states, California has had a policy of mandatory diversion to drug treatment for non-violent drug offenders since mid-2001 (Proposition 36)....

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Marijuana Use and High School Dropout: The Influence of Unobservables

McCaffrey, Daniel F.; Pacula, Rosalie Liccardo; Han, Bing; … - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2008

In this study we reconsider the relationship between heavy and persistent marijuana use and high school dropout status using a unique prospective panel study of over 4500 7th grade students from South Dakota who are followed up through high school. Propensity score weighting is used to adjust...

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Do Higher Cigarette Prices Encourage Youth to Use Marijuana?

Chaloupka, Frank Joseph Chaloupka, IV; Pacula, Rosalie … - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 1999

Every major national tobacco legislation proposed in the past two years has called for significant increases in the price of cigarettes as a way to discourage youths from smoking. One argument used to oppose these bills is that increases in the price of cigarettes would cause youths to...

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The Effects of Prices and Policies on the Demand for Marijuana: Evidence from the National Household Surveys on Drug Abuse

Farrelly, Matthew C.; Bray, Jeremy W.; Zarkin, Gary A.; … - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 1999

Recent studies have shown that efforts to curb alcohol use by increasing the price of alcohol and limiting youth's access have succeeded, but they may have had the unintended consequencce of increasing marijuana use. This possibility is troubling in light of a recent government report that shows...

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Patents, Public-Private Partnerships or Prizes – How should we support pharmaceutical innovation?

Grootendorst, Paul - Department of Economics, McMaster University - 2009

The question as to how society should support pharmaceutical (‘pharma’) innovation is both pertinent and timely: Pharma drugs are an integral component of modern health care and hold the promise to treat more effectively various debilitating health problems. The productivity of the pharma...

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How should we support pharmaceutical innovation?

Grootendorst, Paul - Department of Economics, McMaster University - 2009

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Out-of-Pocket Prescription Drug Expenditures and Public Prescription Drug Programs

Alan, Sule; Crossley, Thomas F.; Grootendorst, Paul; … - Department of Economics, McMaster University - 2002

Canadian household prescription drug expenditures are studied using different years of the Statistics Canada Family Expenditure Survey. Master files are used, expanding the number of available years and permitting provincial rather than regional identifiers. Nonparametric Engel curves are...

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Do Drug Plans Matter? Effects of Drug Plan Eligibility on Drug Use Among the Elderly, Social Assistance Recipients and the General Population

Grootendorst, Paul; Levine, Mitchell - Department of Economics, McMaster University - 2002

The 1984 Canada Health Act does not require that the provinces subsidize prescription drugs. Many provinces do, however, provide categorical coverage to the elderly, social assistance recipients and others, although the generosity of coverage is highly variable. A system of parallel private...

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Effects of 'Authorized-Generics' on Canadian Drug Prices

Grootendorst, Paul - Department of Economics, McMaster University - 2007

generic competitors should lower prices. On the other hand, the threat of AG entry into a therapeutic market might deter entry … of AG entry into a market might deter entry by IGs. IG executives, however, state that the threat of AG entry has … decreased their incentive to challenge ‘marginal’ drug markets. In particular the threat of AG entry has increased from $5m to …

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The Effects of Drug Subsidies on Out-of Pocket Prescription Drug Expenditures by Seniors: Regional Evidence from Canada

Crossley, Thomas F.; Grootendorst, Paul; Korkmaz, Sule; … - Department of Economics, McMaster University - 2000

Between 1970 and 1986 all Canadian provinces introduced some version of a prescription drug subsidy for those age 65 or over and since 1986, all the provinces have increased copayments or deductibles to some degree. Employing a first-order approximation to the welfare gains from a subsidy, we...

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