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Engineers, Innovative Capacity and Development in the Americas
Maloney, William F. - 2014
Using newly collected national and sub-national data and historical case studies, this paper argues that differences in innovative capacity, captured by the density of engineers at the dawn of the Second Industrial Revolution, are important to explaining present income differences, and, in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013051452
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Trends in Absolute Income Mobility in North America and Europe
Manduca, Robert - 2020
and Europe. Rates and trends in absolute mobility varied dramatically across countries during this period: the US and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012828603
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Bureaucratic Rents and Life Satisfaction
Luechinger, Simon; Meier, Stephan; Stutzer, Alois - 2021
The monopoly position of the public bureaucracy in providing public services allows government employees to acquire rents. Those rents can involve higher wages, monetary and non-monetary fringe benefits (e.g., pensions and staffing), and/or bribes. We propose a direct measure to capture the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013317746
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Crime and the Legalization of Recreational Marijuana
Dragone, Davide - 2017
We provide first-pass evidence that the legalization of the cannabis market across US states may be inducing a crime drop. Exploiting the recent staggered legalization enacted by the adjacent states of Washington (end of 2012) and Oregon (end of 2014) we find, combining county-level...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012963849
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Persuasive Agenda-Setting : Rodrigo Duterte's Inauguration Speech and Drugs in the Philippines
Jetter, Michael - 2020
sub-national Google searches over six months, identifying a strong and persistent increase in drug-related searches right … in drug-related Google searches. Finally, we examine individual-level survey responses that more directly capture policy …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012839063
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The Economics Behind the Epidemic : Afghan Opium Price and Prescription Opioids in the US
Deiana, Claudio - 2020
We investigate the effect of variations in the price of opium in Afghanistan on per capita dispensation of prescription opioids in the US. Quarterly county-level data for 2003-2016 indicate that reductions in opium prices significantly increase the quantity of opioids prescribed. The increase...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012843718
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Mandatory Minimums and the Sentencing of Federal Drug Crimes
Bjerk, David - 2017
The United States federal mandatory minimums have been controversial not only because of the length of the mandatory sentences for even first-time offenders, but also because the eligibility quantities for crack are very small when compared to those for other drugs. This paper shows that the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012962310
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The Welfare Implications of Addictive Substances : A Longitudinal Study of Life Satisfaction of Drug Users
Moschion, Julie - 2017
This paper provides an empirical test of the rational addiction model, used in economics to model individuals' consumption of addictive substances, versus the utility misprediction model, used in psychology to explain the discrepancy between people's decision and their subsequent experiences. By...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012942107
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Drug Decriminalization and the Price of Illicit Drugs
Félix, Sónia - 2015
This study is an empirical assessment of the impact of the drug decriminalization policy followed by Portugal in July … sequence of the policy change. This result contrasts with the argument that softer drug law enforcement necessarily leads to … lower prices and, consequently, to higher drug usage rates and dependence …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013027751
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A Path Out : Prescription Drug Abuse, Treatment, and Suicide
Borgschulte, Mark - 2018
In this paper we investigate the dual role of supply restrictions and drug treatment in combating the concurrent rise … decrease suicides in places with strong addiction-help networks, implying that prescription drug abuse is associated with an …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012923237