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cheap fentanyl. Drug mortality dipped in the months between the $600 and $300 bonuses, especially for age groups …
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This paper estimates the effect of alcohol consumption on mortality using the minimum drinking age in a regression … alcohol consumption results in a discrete 9 percent increase in the mortality rate at age 21. The overall increase in deaths … total mortality. Given that mortality due to external causes peaks at about age 21 and that young adults report very high …
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reduction in drinking and lower all-cause mortality in the short run. But those results do not fully capture the long …-term mortality effects of a permanent change in drinking levels. In particular, since moderate drinking has a protective effect … percent reduction in drinking on all-cause mortality for the age group 35-69, using several alternative assumptions about how …
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survey data, we assess six possible explanations for this upsurge in mortality. Most find little support in the data: the … mortality rates. The two factors that do appear to be important are alcohol consumption, especially as it relates to external …
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about the effects of in utero exposure to alcohol on long-run outcomes such as later-life mortality. Here, we investigate … how state by year variation in alcohol control arising from the repeal of federal prohibition affects mortality for … cohorts born in the 1930s. We find that individuals born in wet states experienced higher later-life mortality than …
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This study investigates whether models of forward-looking behavior explain the observed patterns of heavy drinking and smoking of men in late middle age in the Health and Retirement Study better than myopic models. We develop and estimate a sequence of nested models which differ by their degree...
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In this paper, we present estimates of the effect of alcohol taxes on employment, hours of work per week, and wages. These are reduced form estimates derived from a structural model linking alcohol use to labor market outcomes. The reduced form estimates are meaningful in two ways: first, they...
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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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College campuses have been cracking down on underage and binge drinking in light of recent highly publicized student deaths. Although there is evidence showing that stricter college alcohol policies have been effective at discouraging both drinking in general and frequent binge drinking on...
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A methodology is developed and applied to compare the performance of publicly funded agencies providing treatment for alcohol abuse in Maine. The methodology estimates a Wiener process that determines the duration of completed treatments, while allowing for agency differences in the...
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