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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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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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Breastfeeding and Child Disability : A Comparison of Siblings from the United States

Wehby, George - 2014

Survey for a large nationally representative sample of children aged 1 to 18 years from the U.S. including over 3 … intensive margin among breastfed children, as any breastfeeding has no effect on the extensive margin. We conclude that very …

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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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Opioids and Post-COVID Labor-Force Participation

Chiocchio, Francesco; Greenwood, Jeremy; Guner, Nezih; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2025

At the onset of COVID-19, U.S. labor-force participation dropped by about 3 percentage points and remained below pre-pandemic levels three years later. Recovery varied across states, with slower rebounds in those more affected by the pre-pandemic opioid crisis, as measured by age-adjusted opioid...

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

Mulligan, Casey B.; Arnott, Rob - 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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Substance Abuse during the Pandemic : Implications for Labor-Force Participation

Greenwood, Jeremy; Guner, Nezih; Kopecky, Karen A. - 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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Employment of mothers after childbirth : a French German comparison

Weber, Andrea Maria; Lauer, Charlotte - 2003

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The Role of Childcare Challenges in the US Jobs Market Recovery During the COVID-19 Pandemic

Furman, Jason; Kearney, Melissa Schettini; Powell, Wilson - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021

excess job loss among parents of young children, and mothers specifically. Using data from the Current Population Survey (CPS …), we confirm that, in general, mothers with young children have experienced a larger decline in employment, as compared … construct counterfactual employment rates and labor force participation rates that assign to mothers of young children the …

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Schools, Job Flexibility, and Married Women's Labor Supply : Evidence From the COVID-19 Pandemic

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

school-aged children, while remote work may mitigate effects for mothers of younger children … associated with significant increases in employment and hours among married women with school-aged children, with no measurable … effects on labor supply in comparison groups. Employment effects of school reopenings are concentrated among mothers of older …

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