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less, invest less in risky assets, and forego treatment which in turn reinforces mental illness. We quantify the societal … treatment services and improving treatment of mental illness in late adolescence substantially improve mental health and welfare …
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This paper studies how health behaviors and investments are shaped through family spillovers. Leveraging administrative healthcare data, we identify the effects of health shocks to individuals on their family members' consumption of preventive care and health-related behaviors. Our...
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We examine the impact of the NCAA Men's Basketball Tournament on college students' drinking behavior using a nationally representative sample of American institutions. While success in intercollegiate athletics may augment the visibility of a university to prospective students and thereby...
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Previous studies have shown that years of formal schooling attained affects health behaviors, but little is known about how the stringency of academic programs affects such behaviors, especially among youth. Using national survey data from the Youth Risk Behavior Surveillance System (YRBS), we...
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We study the impact of legal access to alcohol on a range of behavioral and physical outcomes of U.S. Army soldiers in a regression discontinuity design. The wealth of novel data collected by the military on cognitive ability, psychological health, and family history allows us to explore how...
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laws for substance use disorder (SUD) treatment have the added benefit of reducing traffic fatalities. Parity laws compel … insurers to generously cover SUD treatment in private markets, thereby reducing the financial costs of and increasing access to … treatment for beneficiaries. We employ 23 years of administrative data from the Fatality Analysis Reporting System (FARS …
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Increased availability of temptation goods might harm individuals if they have time-inconsistent preferences and consume more in the present than planned before. We study this idea by examining the credit behavior of low-income households around the expansion of the opening hours of retail...
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Previous research has found strong evidence that legal access to alcohol is associated with sizable increases in …
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We examine an untested hypothesis that posits that null results in early studies examining the economic impacts of smoking bans were driven by sample selection. Early adopters could better absorb the shock of bans, but among worse selected late adopters bans would adversely impact bars and...
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This paper estimates the effects of post-and-hold laws on alcohol consumption and price. Post-and-hold laws require alcohol wholesalers to provide a list of prices to the state, which can be reviewed by retailers, competitors and the public. These laws were generally enacted at the end of...
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