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Lethal Unemployment Bonuses? Substitution and Income Effects on Substance Abuse, 2020-21

Mulligan, Casey B. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022

Marginal prices fell, and disposable incomes increased, for drug and alcohol consumers during the pandemic. Most of the amount, timing, and composition of the 240,000 deaths involving alcohol and drugs since early 2020 can be explained by income effects and category-specific price changes. For...

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Lifecycle Effects of a Recession on Health Behaviors : Boom, Bust, and Recovery in Iceland

Ásgeirsdóttir, Tinna Laufey - 2015

This study uses individual-level longitudinal data from Iceland, a country that experienced a severe economic crisis in 2008 and substantial recovery by 2012, to investigate the extent to which the effects of a recession on health behaviors are lingering or short-lived and to explore...

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The Intergenerational Effects of Parental Leave : Exploiting Forty Years of U.S. Policy Variation

Flores, Andrea M.; Gayle, George-Levi; Hincapié, Andrés - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023

mobility in education, stems from heterogeneity in the effects of the policies: children of mothers with fewer years of … education benefit more. As a potential mechanism, we find that the policies increased mothers' time investments in children and … parental decisions (labor market, investments in children, and fertility). We merge rich sources of historical information on …

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Prescription Drug Monitoring Programs, Opioid Abuse, and Crime

Dave, Dhaval - 2018

We study the spillover effects of prescription drug monitoring programs (PDMPs) on crime, and in the process inform how policies that restrict access to Rx opioids per se within the healthcare system would impact broader non-health domains. In response to the substantial increase in opioid use...

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Does Drinking Really Decrease in Bad Times?

Ruhm, Christopher J. - 2001

This paper investigates the relationship between macroeconomic conditions, alcohol use, and drinking problems using individual-level data from the 1987-1999 years of the Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System. We confirm the procyclical variation in overall drinking identified in previous...

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Substance Abuse during the Pandemic : Implications for Labor-Force Participation

Greenwood, Jeremy; Guner, Nezih; Kopecky, Karen - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022

The labor-force participation rates of prime-age U.S. workers dropped in March 2020--the start of the COVID-19 pandemic--and have still not fully recovered. At the same time, substance-abuse deaths were elevated during the pandemic relative to trend indicating an increase in the number of...

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Non-Covid Excess Deaths, 2020-21 : Collateral Damage of Policy Choices?

Mulligan, Casey B.; Arnott, Robert D. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022

similar for each of the 18-44, 45-64, and over-65 age groups, with essentially no aggregate excess deaths of children …

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COVID-19 Has Strengthened the Relationship Between Alcohol Consumption and Domestic Violence

Chalfin, Aaron; Danagoulian, Shooshan; Deza, Monica - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021

A large body of evidence documents a link between alcohol consumption and violence involving intimate partners and close family members. Recent scholarship suggests that since the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic and subsequent stay-at-home orders, there has been a marked increase in domestic...

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Employment of mothers after childbirth : a French German comparison

Weber, Andrea Maria; Lauer, Charlotte - 2003

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Unemployment and Health Behaviors Over the Business Cycle : a Longitudinal View

Colman, Gregory - 2014

We examine the first-order internal effects of unemployment on a range of health behaviors during the most recent recession using longitudinal data from the Panel Study of Income Dynamics (PSID) and the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth 1979 (NLSY79). Consistent with prior studies based on...

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