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We use data from the Population Assessment of Tobacco Use and Health (PATH), a longitudinal data set including self …
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This paper applies principles of adverse selection to overcome obstacles that prevent the implementation of Pigouvian policies to internalize externalities. Focusing on negative externalities from production (such as pollution), we consider settings in which aggregate emissions are known, but...
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Evidence on cannabis legalization's effects on mental health remains scarce, despite both rapid increases in cannabis … use and an ongoing mental health crisis in the United States. We use granular geographic data to estimate medical cannabis … dispensary availability's effects on self-reported mental health in New York state from 2011 through 2021 using a two …
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Despite efforts to address the opioid crisis, opioid-related overdoses remain a significant contributor to mortality. State efforts to reduce overdose deaths by removing barriers to naloxone have recently focused on pharmacy channels, but the specifics of these laws and the contexts in which...
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For those who follow health and technology news, it is difficult to go more than a few days without reading about a … compelling new application of Artificial Intelligence (AI) to health care. AI has myriad applications in medicine and its … health care delivery, including administrative work, diagnosis, and treatment. In diagnosis and treatment, a large and …
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We provide the first quasi-experimental estimates of variation in suicide impulsivity by age by examining the impact of firearm purchase delay laws by age. Prior studies of firearm purchase delay laws use traditional two-way-fixed-effects estimation, but we demonstrate that bias due to...
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Operation Warp Speed (OWS) was a U.S. government-led program to accelerate the development, production, and administration of COVID-19 vaccines. The program cut the typical ten-year timeline needed to develop a new vaccine down to ten months and began vaccinating vulnerable populations within a...
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seen less warming, especially of very hot temperatures, than what climate models project. Our findings highlight that … weather shocks in highly irrigated areas are not exogenous but are influenced by human responses in the form of irrigation …
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countries. Third, we exploit variation in the long-run change in average US climate from 1900 to 2019 and find that migration … ethnic networks or other confounders, and provide evidence for two complementary mechanisms: climate-specific human capital …. Finally, we project how climate change shapes the geography of US population growth by altering migration patterns, both …
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The opioid crisis generates broader societal harms beyond direct health and economic effects, impacting non … (IPV). Using administrative data on incidents reported to law enforcement, in conjunction with quasi-experimental variation …
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