Buckles, Kasey S.; Evans, William N.; Lieber, Ethan - 2022
We examine the impact of the drug crisis that has unfolded over the last three decades in the United States on children … point in a child’s life, we measure children’s exposure to the crisis with the cumulative drug-related mortality of likely … parents. A potential omitted variables bias complicates the analysis, as the factors that may have led parents to abuse drugs …