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We analyze a unique data set detailing the financial activities of a drug-selling street gang on a monthly basis over a …, contain detailed information on both the sources of revenues (e.g. drug sales, extortion) and expenditrues (e.g. costs of … drugs sold, weapons, tribute to the central gang organization, wages paid to various levels of the gang). Street-level drug …
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This paper presents a model of prosecutors' decision-making processes in which prosecutors (both federal and state) internalize some of the benefits of reducing crime, but also care about developing their own human capital. Since U.S. attorneys make their decision first, they have the...
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Despite efforts to address the opioid crisis, opioid-related overdoses remain a significant contributor to mortality. State efforts to reduce overdose deaths by removing barriers to naloxone have recently focused on pharmacy channels, but the specifics of these laws and the contexts in which...
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, we find that over a longer time horizon, reformulation stimulated illicit drug markets to grow and evolve. We compare …
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We study the behavioral changes due to marijuana consumption on fertility and its key mechanisms, as opposed to physiological changes. We can employ several large proprietary data sets, including the 1997 National Longitudinal Survey of Youth, Nielsen Retail Scanner database, as well as the...
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model of pharmaceutical payments and investigates the impact of Mandatory Access Prescription Drug Monitoring Programs … extensive and intensive margins. Our results are consistent with economic theory, predicting lower promotional activities when …
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We study the effect of recent legalization of recreational marijuana use (RMLs) in the United States on Social Security Disability Insurance and Supplemental Security Income claiming, proxied by new applications and new benedficiaries, over the period 2001 to 2019. We combine administrative...
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Marijuana is partially prohibited: though banned federally, it is available to 1 in 4 U.S. adults under state statutes. We measure the size of the interstate trade generated by state-level differences in legal status with a natural experiment: Oregon allowed stores to sell marijuana for...
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Over the last few years, marijuana has become legally available for recreational use to roughly a quarter of Americans. Policy makers have long expressed concerns about the substantial external costs of alcohol, and similar costs could come with the liberalization of marijuana policy. Indeed,...
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The United States is in the midst of a fatal drug epidemic. This study uses data from the Multiple Cause of Death Files … to examine the extent to which increases in county-level drug mortality rates from 1999-2015 are due to “deaths of … changes in the “drug environment” in ways that present differential risks to population subgroups. A primary finding is that …
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