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Why the DEA STRIDE Data are Still Useful for Understanding Drug Markets
Arkes, Jeremy - 2008
construction of city-specific price and purity series that pay careful attention to the data and incorporate existing knowledge of …
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Risks and Prices : The Role of User Sanctions in Marijuana Markets
Pacula, Rosalie Liccardo - 2007
User sanctions influence the legal risk for participants in illegal drug markets. A change in user sanctions may change retail drug prices, depending on how it changes the legal risk to users, how it changes the legal risk to dealers, and the slope of the supply curve. Using a novel dataset with...
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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. - 1999
Recent studies have shown that efforts to curb alcohol use by increasing the price of alcohol and limiting youth … complements, sot that increasing the price of any one will decrease the demand for marijuana. The results of this paper will help …
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Do Higher Cigarette Prices Encourage Youth to Use Marijuana?
Chaloupka, Frank J. - 1999
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 substitute marijuana for cigarettes. Although it has long been believed that …. Examination of the cross-price effects clearly shows that higher cigarette prices will not increase marijuana use among youths. In …
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