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Migraine headache and labor market outcomes

Rees, Daniel I.; Sabia, Joseph J. - 2012

While migraine headache can be physically debilitating, no study has attempted to estimate its effects on labor market outcomes. Using data drawn from the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent Health, we estimate the effect of migraine headache on labor force participation, hours worked, and...

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Employment verification mandates and the labor market outcomes of likely unauthorized and native workers

Amuedo Dorantes, Catalina; Bansak, Cynthia - 2013

impact that the enactment of various types of E-verify mandates may have on the employment and wages of these two populations …. We find that the enactment of both universal and public-sector only mandates reduce employment of likely unauthorized … workers. Meanwhile, employment verification does not affect naturalized Hispanic workers but increases the employment …

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Cohort-level sex ratio effects on women's labor force participation

Grossbard-Shechtman, Shoshana (contributor); … - 2007

It follows from a number of theoretical models of marriage that the scarcer women are relative to men, i.e. the higher the sex ratio, the less married women are likely to participate in the labor force. Such sex ratio effects may be stronger among less educated women. These predictions are...

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Medical marijuana laws and teen marijuana use

Anderson, D. Mark; Hansen, Benjamin; Rees, Daniel I. - 2012

While at least a dozen state legislatures are considering bills to allow the consumption of marijuana for medicinal purposes, the federal government has recently intensified its efforts to close medical marijuana dispensaries. Federal officials contend that the legalization of medical marijuana...

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High on life? : medical marijuana laws and suicide

Anderson, D. Mark; Rees, Daniel I.; Sabia, Joseph J. - 2012

Using state-level data for the period 1990 through 2007, we estimate the effect of legalizing medical marijuana on suicide rates. Our results suggest that the passage of a medical marijuana law is associated with an almost 5 percent reduction in the total suicide rate, an 11 percent reduction in...

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The kid's speech : the effect of stuttering on human capital acquisition

Rees, Daniel I.; Sabia, Joseph J. - 2011

A number of studies have shown that childhood speech impairments such as stuttering are associated with lower test scores and educational attainment. However, it is unclear whether this result is causal in nature or whether it can be explained by difficult-to-measure heterogeneity at the...

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Cigarette taxes and youth smoking : updated estimates using YRBS data

Hansen, Benjamin; Sabia, Joseph J.; Rees, Daniel I. - 2015

Using data from the state and national Youth Risk Behavior Surveys for the period 1991-2005, Carpenter and Cook (2008) found a strong, negative relationship between cigarette taxes and youth smoking. We revisit this relationship using four additional waves of YRBS data (2007, 2009, 2011, and...

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Low-skilled immigration and parenting investments of college-educated mothers in the United States : evidence from time-use data

Amuedo Dorantes, Catalina; Sevilla-Sanz, Almudena - 2013

This paper uses several decades of US time-diary surveys to assess the impact of low-skilled immigration, through lower prices for commercial child care, on parental time investments. Using an instrumental variables approach that accounts for the endogenous location of immigrants, we find that...

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In-state tuition for undocumented immigrants and its impact on college enrollment, tuition costs, student financial aid, and indebtedness

Amuedo Dorantes, Catalina; Sparber, Chad - 2012

The 1996 Immigration Reform and Responsibility Act barred states from giving unlawful residents postsecondary education benefits that states do not offer to U.S. citizens. In contrast to this federal law, several states have passed legislation explicitly allowing undocumented immigrants to pay...

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Medical marijuana laws, traffic fatalities, and alcohol consumption

Anderson, D. Mark; Hansen, Benjamin; Rees, Daniel I. - In: The journal of law & economics 56 (2013) 2, pp. 333-369

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