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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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How the reformulation of oxycontin ignited the heroin epidemic

Evans, William N.; Lieber, Ethan M. J.; Power, Patrick - In: The review of economics and statistics 101 (2019) 1, pp. 1-15

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The white/black educational gap, stalled progress, and the long-term consequences of the emergence of crack cocaine markets

Evans, William N.; Garthwaite, Craig; Moore, Timothy J. - In: The review of economics and statistics 98 (2016) 5, pp. 832-847

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The Drug Crisis and the Living Arrangements of Children

Buckles, Kasey - 2020

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 … could also have altered the living arrangements of their children. Within a 2SLS framework, we instrument for the cumulative …

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Giving Mom a Break : The Impact of Higher EITC Payments on Maternal Health

Evans, William N. - 2010

Surveillance Survey, we find in difference-in-difference models that for low-educated mothers of two or more children, the number … families based on the number of children, with families containing two or more children now receiving substantially more in … benefits. If income is protective of health, we should see improvements over time in the health for mothers eligible for the …

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The White/Black Educational Gap, Stalled Progress, and the Long Term Consequences of the Emergence of Crack Cocaine Markets

Evans, William N. - 2012

We propose the rise of crack cocaine markets as an explanation for the end to the convergence in black-white educational outcomes beginning in the mid-1980s. After constructing a measure to date the arrival of crack markets in cities and states, we show large increases in murder and...

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Teen Drinking and Education Attainment : Evidence From Two-Sample Instrumental Variables (TSIV) Estimates

Dee, Thomas S. - 1997

Recent research has suggested that one of the important consequences of teen drinking is reduced scholastic achievement and that state excise taxes on beer and minimum legal drinking ages (MLDA) as policy instruments can have a positive impact on educational attainment. But there is reason to...

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Origins of the Opioid Crisis and Its Enduring Impacts

Alpert, Abby E. - 2019

Overdose deaths involving opioids have increased dramatically since the mid-1990s, leading to the worst drug overdose epidemic in U.S. history, but there is limited empirical evidence on the initial causes. In this paper, we examine the role of the 1996 introduction and marketing of OxyContin as...

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Guns and Violence : The Enduring Impact of Crack Cocaine Markets on Young Black Males

Evans, William N. - 2018

Crack cocaine markets were associated with substantial increases in violence in the U.S. during the 1980s and 1990s. Using cross-city variation in the emergence of these markets, we show that the resulting violence has important long-term implications for understanding current levels of murder...

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Schooling and Labor Market Consequences of the 1970 State Abortion Reforms

Angrist, Joshua D. - 1996

schooling and labor market outcomes of mothers observed in 1980 and 1990 Census microdata. Reduced-form estimates suggest that …

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