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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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Alcohol Exposure In Utero and Child Academic Achievement

Scholder, Stephanie von Hinke Kessler - 2014

and behaviours. OLS regressions suggest an ambiguous association between alcohol exposure in utero and children's academic … attainment, but there is a strong social gradient in maternal drinking, with mothers in higher socio-economic groups more likely …

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Intergenerational Transmission of Inequality : Maternal Endowments, Investments, and Birth Outcomes

Eshaghnia, Sadegh; Heckman, James J. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023

Newborn health is an important component in the chain of intergenerational transmission of disadvantage. This paper contributes to the literature on the determinants of health at birth in two ways. First, we analyze the role of maternal endowments and investments (education and smoking in...

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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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Early maternal employment and non-cognitive outcomes in early childhood and adolescence : evidence from British birth cohort data

Lekfuangfu, Warn N.; Powdthavee, Nattavudh; Clark, Andrew E. - 2015

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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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