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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013210607
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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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012980189
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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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013097659
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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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014158808
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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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013158042
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012923713
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Living Rationally Under the Volcano? An Empirical Analysis of Heavy Drinking and Smoking
Arcidiacono, Peter; Sieg, Holger; Sloan, Frank A. - 2022
This study investigates whether models of forward-looking behavior explain the observed patterns of heavy drinking and smoking of men in late middle age in the Health and Retirement Study better than myopic models. We develop and estimate a sequence of nested models which differ by their degree...
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The Impact of Maternal Alcohol and Illicit Drug Use on Children'S Behavior Problems : Evidence from the Children of the National Longitudinal Survey
Chatterji, Pinka; Markowitz, Sara - 2021
This study uses data from the Children of the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth to test for evidence of a causal relationship between maternal alcohol use, marijuana use and cocaine use, and children's behavior problems. Ordinary least squares results provide strong evidence that maternal...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013220078
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Alcohol and Marijuana Use Among College Students : Economic Complements or Substitutes?
Williams, Jenny; Pacula, Rosalie Liccardo; Chaloupka, … - 2021
College campuses have been cracking down on underage and binge drinking in light of recent highly publicized student deaths. Although there is evidence showing that stricter college alcohol policies have been effective at discouraging both drinking in general and frequent binge drinking on...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013223313
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Alcohol Prohibition and Cirrhosis
Dills, Angela K.; Miron, Jeffrey A. - 2021
This paper uses state-level data on cirrhosis death rates to examine the impact of state prohibitions, pre-1920 federal anti-alcohol policies, and constitutional prohibition on cirrhosis State prohibitions had a minimal impact on cirrhosis, especially during the pre-1920 period. Pre-1920 federal...
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