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Does Drinking Really Decrease in Bad Times?

Ruhm, Christopher J.; Black, William E. - 2021

This paper investigates the relationship between macroeconomic conditions, alcohol use, and drinking problems using individual-level data from the 1987-1999 years of the Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System. We confirm the procyclical variation in overall drinking identified in previous...

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Regression Kink Design : Theory and Practice

Card, David E. - 2016

unemployment benefits on the duration of joblessness in Austria, and discuss implementation issues that may arise in similar … nonparametric estimation (e.g. Imbens et al. (2012) and Calonico et al. (2014)) are sometimes interpreted by practitioners as … pointing to a default estimation procedure, we show that in any given application different procedures may perform better or …

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Nonlinear Policy Rules and the Identification and Estimation of Causal Effects in a Generalized Regression Kink Design

Card, David E. - 2012

We consider nonparametric identification and estimation in a nonseparable model where a continuous regressor of … institutional settings where a policy variable (such as weekly unemployment benefits) is determined by an observed but potentially … endogenous assignment variable (like previous earnings). We provide new results on identification and estimation for these …

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Job Loss : Eat, Drink and Try to Be Merry?

Deb, Partha - 2009

improve upon extant literature by using: exogenously determined business closings, a sophisticated estimation approach (finite …

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Employment, Unemployment, and Problem Drinking

Mullahy, John; Sindelar, Jody Louise - 2022

unemployment. The sample of approximately 15,000 observations is drawn from the 1988 Alcohol Survey of the National Health … when using OLS estimation methods …

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U.S. Employment and Opioids : Is There a Connection?

Currie, Janet M. - 2018

This paper uses quarterly county-level data from 2006–2014 to examine the direction of causality in the relationship between per capita opioid prescription rates and employment-to-population ratios. We first estimate models of the effect of per capita opioid prescription rates on...

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Adolescent Alcohol and Marijuana Consumption : Is There Really a Gateway Effect?

Pacula, Rosalie Liccardo - 2008

This research analyzes the contemporaneous and intertemporal relationship between the demands for alcohol and marijuana by youths and young adults. A general theory of multi-commodity habit formation is developed and tested using data from the 1983-1984 waves of the National Longitudinal Survey...

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Lifecycle Effects of a Recession on Health Behaviors : Boom, Bust, and Recovery in Iceland

Ásgeirsdóttir, Tinna Laufey - 2015

This study uses individual-level longitudinal data from Iceland, a country that experienced a severe economic crisis in 2008 and substantial recovery by 2012, to investigate the extent to which the effects of a recession on health behaviors are lingering or short-lived and to explore...

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Drinking and Academic Performance in High School

DeSimone, Jeffrey S. - 2010

We investigate the extent to which negative alcohol use coefficients in GPA regressions reflect unobserved heterogeneity rather than direct effects of drinking, using 2001 and 2003 Youth Risk Behavior Survey data on high school students. Results illustrate that omitted factors are quite...

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Legal Access to Alcohol and Criminality

Hansen, Benjamin - 2016

Previous research has found strong evidence that legal access to alcohol is associated with sizable increases in criminality. We revisit this relationship using the census of judicial records on criminal charges filed in Oregon Courts, the ability to separately track crimes involving firearms,...

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