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cheap fentanyl. Drug mortality dipped in the months between the $600 and $300 bonuses, especially for age groups …
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This paper estimates the effect of alcohol consumption on mortality using the minimum drinking age in a regression … alcohol consumption results in a discrete 9 percent increase in the mortality rate at age 21. The overall increase in deaths … total mortality. Given that mortality due to external causes peaks at about age 21 and that young adults report very high …
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reduction in drinking and lower all-cause mortality in the short run. But those results do not fully capture the long …-term mortality effects of a permanent change in drinking levels. In particular, since moderate drinking has a protective effect … percent reduction in drinking on all-cause mortality for the age group 35-69, using several alternative assumptions about how …
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survey data, we assess six possible explanations for this upsurge in mortality. Most find little support in the data: the … mortality rates. The two factors that do appear to be important are alcohol consumption, especially as it relates to external …
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about the effects of in utero exposure to alcohol on long-run outcomes such as later-life mortality. Here, we investigate … how state by year variation in alcohol control arising from the repeal of federal prohibition affects mortality for … cohorts born in the 1930s. We find that individuals born in wet states experienced higher later-life mortality than …
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The purpose of this paper is to empirically examine the relationship between alcohol advertising bans and alcohol consumption. Most prior studies have found no effect of advertising on total alcohol consumption. A simple economic model is provided which explains these prior results. The data set...
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This study uses data from the Children of the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth to test for evidence of a causal relationship between maternal alcohol use, marijuana use and cocaine use, and children's behavior problems. Ordinary least squares results provide strong evidence that maternal...
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Taxation of cigarettes and alcohol can raise revenue and reduce consumption of goods with negative external effects. Despite medical and psychological evidence linking their consumption, little previous work has investigated the significance of cross-price effects in cigarette and alcohol...
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The purpose of this study is to examine the question of whether alcohol or drug use causes teenagers to engage in violent behaviors as measured by physical fighting, carrying a gun, or carrying other types of weapons. Simple OLS estimation of the effects of drug and alcohol consumption on...
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The purpose of this paper is to examine the relationship between the price of alcoholic beverages and the incidence of criminal violence in different countries around the world. The positive association between alcoholic beverage consumption and violence is well documented, as is the negative...
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