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Maternal Employment and Adolescent Development

Ruhm, Christopher J. - 2004

This study investigates how maternal employment is related to the outcomes of 10 and 11 year olds after controlling for a wide variety of child, mother and family background characteristics. The results suggest that the mother's labor supply has deleterious effects on cognitive development,...

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What U.S. Data Should be Used to Measure the Price Elasticity of Demand for Alcohol?

Ruhm, Christopher J. - 2011

This paper examines how estimates of the price elasticity of demand for beer vary with the choice of alcohol price series examined. Our most important finding is that the commonly used ACCRA price data are unlikely to reliably indicate alcohol demand elasticities--estimates obtained from this...

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Taking the Measure of a Fatal Drug Epidemic

Ruhm, Christopher J. - 2016

This analysis utilizes death certificate data from the Multiple Cause of Death (MCOD) files to better measure the specific drugs involved in drug poisoning fatalities. Statistical adjustment procedures are used to provide more accurate estimates, accounting for the understatement in death...

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Does Drinking Really Decrease in Bad Times?

Ruhm, Christopher J. - 2001

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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Marijuana Legalization and Opioid Deaths

Mathur, Neil K.; Ruhm, Christopher J. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022

Over the last two decades there has been considerable movement at the state-level to legalize marijuana, initially for medical purposes and more recently for recreational consumption. Despite prior research, it is unclear how, if at all, these policies are related to rates of opioid-involved...

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The Opioid Crisis, Health, Healthcare, and Crime : A Review of Economic Studies

Maclean, Johanna Catherine; Mallatt, Justine; Ruhm, … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022

Opioid use is one of the most substantial and long-lasting public health crises faced by the United States. This crisis, which began by the mid-1990s and continues through the time of writing, causes 136 fatal opioid overdoses each day and costs the U.S. at least $596 billion each year. These...

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Education Gradients in Mortality Trends by Gender and Race

Leive, Adam A.; Ruhm, Christopher J. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021

We examine gender and race differences in education-mortality trends among 25-64 year olds in the United States from 2001-2018. The data indicate that the relationships are heterogeneous with larger mortality reductions for less educated non-Hispanic blacks than other races and mixed results at...

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When the Kids Grow Up : Women's Employment and Earnings across the Family Cycle

Goldin, Claudia; Pekkala Kerr, Sari; Olivetti, Claudia - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022

Women earn less than men, and that is especially true of mothers relative to fathers. Much of the widening occurs after … family formation when mothers reduce their hours of work. But what happens when the kids grow up? To answer that question, we … together these three produce the "parental gender gap," defined as the difference in income between mothers and fathers. We …

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Mobilizing the Manpower of Mothers : Childcare under the Lanham Act during WWII

Ferrie, Joseph P.; Goldin, Claudia; Olivetti, Claudia - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024

the preschool and school-aged children of working women during WWII. It remains, to this day, the only example in US … increasing the labor supply of mothers during WWII. Our information is at the city or town level and includes war contracts, the … size of and expenditures on the childcare program, and the "reserve labor force" of mothers as of 1939. We find that the …

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Parental Leave and Child Health

Ruhm, Christopher J. - 1998

reduce deaths of infants and young children. The magnitudes of the estimated effects are substantial, especially for those …

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