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High School Alcohol Use and Young Adult Labor Market Outcomes
Chatterji, Pinka - 2006
Educational Longitudinal Survey respondents. For females, adolescent drinking and adult wages are unrelated, and negative …
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Labor Market Fluidity and Human Capital Accumulation
Engbom, Niklas - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022
Using panel data from 23 OECD countries, I document that wages grow more over the life-cycle in countries where job …-to-job mobility is more common. A life-cycle theory of job shopping and accumulation of skills on the job highlights that a more fluid … comparable cross-country training data, finding support for the theory …
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Separate and Unequal in the Labor Market : Human Capital and the Jim Crow Wage Gap
Carruthers, Celeste K. - 2016
The gap between black and white earnings is a longstanding feature of the United States labor market. Competing explanations attribute different weight to wage discrimination and access to human capital. Using new data on local school quality, we find that human capital played a predominant role...
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Violence and the U.S. Prohibition of Drugs and Alcohol
Miron, Jeffrey A. - 1999
Among the many unresolved questions regarding the determinants of violence is the role of prohibitions against drugs and alcohol. Conventional wisdom holds that consumption of these goods encourages violence and that prohibitions discourage such consumption; thus, prohibitions reduce violence....
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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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The Effects of Alcohol Excise Tax Increases by Drinking Level and by Income Level
Saffer, Henry; Gehrsitz, Markus; Grossman, Michael - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022
The alcohol industry argues that alcohol excise taxes do not reduce heavy drinking because of substitutions to lower-cost products and that these taxes disproportionately burden low-income drinkers. Alternatively, some economists have argued that increases in alcohol excise taxes reduce heavy...
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COVID-19 Has Strengthened the Relationship Between Alcohol Consumption and Domestic Violence
Chalfin, Aaron; Danagoulian, Shooshan; Deza, Monica - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021
A large body of evidence documents a link between alcohol consumption and violence involving intimate partners and close family members. Recent scholarship suggests that since the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic and subsequent stay-at-home orders, there has been a marked increase in domestic...
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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...
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Religion and Risky Health Behaviors among U.S. Adolescents and Adults
Fletcher, Jason - 2013
Recent studies analyzing the effects of religion on various economic, social, health and political outcomes have been largely associational. Although some attempts have been made to establish causation using instrument variable (IV) or difference-in-difference (DID) methods, the instruments and...
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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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