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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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Maternal Mortality Risk and Spousal Differences in the Demand for Children
Ashraf, Nava - 2020
Fertility decisions are often made by partners who may disagree. We develop a model in which an initial gender gap in ideal fertility prevents effective communication between spouses about the costs of childbearing incurred by women. This mechanism is likely to further widen the spousal...
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Dust to Feed, Dust to Grey : The Effect of In-Utero Exposure to the Dust Bowl on Old-Age Longevity
Noghanibehambari, Hamid; Fletcher, Jason - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022
suggest the effects are more pronounced among children raised in farm households, females, and those with lower maternal …
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Maternal and Infant Health Inequality : New Evidence from Linked Administrative Data
Kennedy-Moulton, Kate; Miller, Sarah; Persson, Petra; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022
-monotonically with parental income, and that children of parents in the top ventile of the income distribution have higher rates of low …
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How the Reformulation of OxyContin Ignited the Heroin Epidemic
Evans, William N. - 2018
We attribute the recent quadrupling of heroin death rates to the August, 2010 reformulation of an oft-abused prescription opioid, OxyContin. The new abuse-deterrent formulation led many consumers to substitute to an inexpensive alternative, heroin. Using structural break techniques and variation...
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'We Are Not Guinea Pigs' : The Effects of Disclosure of Medical Misconduct on Vaccine Compliance
Archibong, Belinda; Annan, Francis - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023
on vaccine compliance among Muslim mothers. Muslim mothers reduced routine vaccination of children born after the 2000 …In 1996, following an epidemic, Pfizer tested a new drug on 200 children in Muslim Nigeria. 11 children died while … others were disabled. We study the effects of the disclosure, in 2000, of the deaths of Muslim children in the Pfizer trials …
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Teenage Driving, Mortality, and Risky Behaviors
Huh, Jason U. - 2020
We investigate the effect of teenage driving on mortality and risky behaviors in the United States using a regression discontinuity design. We estimate that motor vehicle fatalities rise by 40% at the minimum legal driving age cutoff, implying a mortality risk per additional mile driven 6-9...
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Taking the Measure of a Fatal Drug Epidemic
Ruhm, Christopher J. - 2016
This analysis utilizes death certificate data from the Multiple Cause of Death (MCOD) files to better measure the specific drugs involved in drug poisoning fatalities. Statistical adjustment procedures are used to provide more accurate estimates, accounting for the understatement in death...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012456174
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Are Alcohol Excise Taxes Good For Us? Short and Long-Term Effects on Mortality Rates
Cook, Philip J. - 2005
Regression results from a 30-year panel of the state-level data indicate that changes in alcohol-excise taxes cause a reduction in drinking and lower all-cause mortality in the short run. But those results do not fully capture the long-term mortality effects of a permanent change in drinking...
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Autopsy on an Empire : Understanding Mortality in Russia and the Former Soviet Union
Brainerd, Elizabeth - 2004
Male life expectancy at birth fell by over six years in Russia between 1989 and 1994. Many other countries of the former Soviet Union saw similar declines, and female life expectancy fell as well. Using cross-country and Russian household survey data, we assess six possible explanations for this...
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