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Lethal Unemployment Bonuses? Substitution and Income Effects on Substance Abuse, 2020-21
Mulligan, Casey B. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022
Marginal prices fell, and disposable incomes increased, for drug and alcohol consumers during the pandemic. Most of the amount, timing, and composition of the 240,000 deaths involving alcohol and drugs since early 2020 can be explained by income effects and category-specific price changes. For...
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Assessing the Effects of Medical Marijuana Laws on Marijuana and Alcohol Use : The Devil is in the Details
Pacula, Rosalie Liccardo - 2013
This paper sheds light on previous inconsistencies identified in the literature regarding the relationship between medical marijuana laws (MML) and recreational marijuana use by closely examining the importance of policy dimensions (registration requirements, home cultivation, dispensaries) and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012459359
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Alcohol Exposure In Utero and Child Academic Achievement
Scholder, Stephanie von Hinke Kessler - 2014
and behaviours. OLS regressions suggest an ambiguous association between alcohol exposure in utero and children's academic … attainment, but there is a strong social gradient in maternal drinking, with mothers in higher socio-economic groups more likely …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012458824
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Marijuana Liberalization Policies and Perinatal Health
Meinhofer, Angelica; Witman, Allison E.; Hinde, Jesse M.; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021
We studied the effect of marijuana liberalization policies on perinatal health with a multiperiod difference-in-differences estimator that exploited variation in effective dates of medical marijuana laws (MML) and recreational marijuana laws (RML). We found that the proportion of maternal...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012629516
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Mother's Education and the Intergenerational Transmission of Human Capital : Evidence from College Openings and Longitudinal Data
Currie, Janet - 2002
We estimate the effect of maternal education on birth outcomes using data from the Vital Statistics Natality files for 1970 to 1999. We also assess the importance of four potential channels through which maternal education may improve birth outcomes: use of prenatal care, smoking behavior,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012469345
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Maternal Education, Parental Investment and Non-Cognitive Skills in Rural China
Leight, Jessica - 2016
education; less educated mothers appear to reinforce differences in non-cognitive skills between their children, while more … to catch-up in non-cognitive skills over time for children of more educated mothers … in life. This paper evaluates the parental response to variation in non-cognitive skills among their children in rural …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012456442
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Intergenerational Transmission of Inequality : Maternal Endowments, Investments, and Birth Outcomes
Eshaghnia, Sadegh; Heckman, James J. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023
Newborn health is an important component in the chain of intergenerational transmission of disadvantage. This paper contributes to the literature on the determinants of health at birth in two ways. First, we analyze the role of maternal endowments and investments (education and smoking in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014421186
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Medicaid Expansions and Welfare Contractions : Offsetting Effects on Prenatal Care and Infant Health?
Currie, Janet - 2000
Evaluations of changes to the Medicaid program have focused on increases in the generosity of income cutoffs for Medicaid eligibility. Previous research shows that despite dramatic increases in the number of births paid for by the Medicaid program, women often enroll in Medicaid at the point of...
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Effects of State-Level Earned Income Tax Credit Laws in the U.S. on Maternal Health Behaviors and Infant Health Outcomes
Markowitz, Sara - 2017
The purpose of this paper is to investigate the effects of state-level Earned Income Tax Credit (EITC) laws in the U.S. on maternal health behaviors and infant health outcomes. Using multi-state, multi-year difference-in-differences analyses, we estimated effects of state EITC generosity on...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012453997
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The Intergenerational Effects of Permanent Legal Status
Cascio, Elizabeth U.; Cornell, Paul; Lewis, Ethan - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024
We estimate the effects of permanent legal status on the health of children born to immigrants in the United States … outcomes for foreign-born Mexican mothers across counties with different application rates under IRCA's large …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014576664