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What Drives Risky Prescription Opioid Use? Evidence from Migration

Finkelstein, Amy; Gentzkow, Matthew Aaron; Li, Dean; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022

We investigate the role of person- and place-specific factors in the opioid epidemic by developing and estimating a dynamic model of risky prescription opioid use. We estimate the model using the relationship between cross-state migration and risky use among adults receiving federal disability...

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The Consequences of Abuse, Neglect and Cyber-bullying on the Wellbeing of the Young

Blanchflower, David G.; Bryson, Alex - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024

Using cross-sectional data files for the United States we show that difficulties experienced in childhood - so-called Adverse Child Experiences (ACE)s - are strongly and significantly associated with mental health in adulthood. Our evidence is taken from eight Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance...

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Underemployment in the US and Europe

Bell, David N. F. - 2018

Large numbers of part-time workers around the world, both those who choose to be part-time and those who are there involuntarily and would prefer a full-time job report they want more hours. Full-timers who say they want to change their hours mostly say they want to reduce them. When recession...

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The Mental Health of the Young in Ex-Soviet States

Blanchflower, David G.; Bryson, Alex - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2025

. Furthermore, in keeping with research on children aged 15-16 in the PISA surveys in other countries, we find life satisfaction of … these school children in ex-Soviet Republics declined over the period 2015-2022 and that, among this group, time spent on …

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The Consequences of Chronic Pain in Mid-Life : Evidence from the National Child Development Survey

Blanchflower, David G.; Bryson, Alex - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021

Using data from all those born in a single week in 1958 in Britain we track the consequences of short pain and chronic pain in mid-life (age 44) on health, wellbeing and labor market outcomes in later life. We examine data taken at age 50 in 2008, when the Great Recession hit and then five years...

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Out of the Woodwork : Enrollment Spillovers in the Oregon Health Insurance Experiment

Sacarny, Adam - 2020

We analyze the impact of expanded adult Medicaid eligibility on the Medicaid enrollment of already-eligible children … for the chance to apply for Medicaid. Children in these households were eligible for Medicaid irrespective of whether the … household won the lottery. We estimate statistically significant but transitory impacts of adult lottery selection on children …

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Dynamic Inefficiencies in Insurance Markets : Evidence from long-term care insurance

Finkelstein, Amy - 2005

We examine whether unregulated, private insurance markets efficiently provide insurance against reclassification risk (the risk of becoming a bad risk and facing higher premiums). To do so, we examine the ex-post risk type of individuals who drop their long-term care insurance contracts relative...

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Money, Sex, and Happiness : An Empirical Study

Blanchflower, David G. - 2004

This paper studies the links between income, sexual behavior and reported happiness. It uses recent data on a random sample of 16,000 adult Americans. The paper finds that sexual activity enters strongly positively in happiness equations. Greater income does not buy more sex, nor more sexual...

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Private Information and its Effect on Market Equilibrium : New Evidence from Long-Term Care Insurance

Finkelstein, Amy - 2003

This paper examines the standard test for asymmetric information in insurance markets: that its presence will result in a positive correlation between insurance coverage and risk occurrence. We show empirically that while there is no evidence of this positive correlation in the long-term care...

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Bunching at the Kink : Implications for Spending Responses to Health Insurance Contracts

Einav, Liran - 2016

A large literature in empirical public finance relies on "bunching" to identify a behavioral response to non-linear incentives and to translate this response into an economic object to be used counterfactually. We conduct this type of analysis in the context of prescription drug insurance for...

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