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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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014437042
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012480628
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013191027
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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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013334323
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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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The Missing Baby Bust : The Consequences of the COVID-19 Pandemic for Contraceptive Use, Pregnancy, and Childbirth among Low-Income Women
Bailey, Martha J.; Bart, Lea J.; Lang, Vanessa Wanner - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022
Multiple episodes in U.S. history demonstrate that birth rates fall in response to recessions. However, the 2020 COVID-19 recession differed from earlier periods in that employment and access to contraception and abortion fell, as reproductive health centers across the country temporarily closed...
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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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012585418
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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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