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The intergenerational transmission of opioid dependence: Evidence from administrative data
Ahammer, Alexander; Halla, Martin - 2021
To address the opioid crisis, it is crucial to understand its origins. We provide descriptive evidence for the intergenerational transmission of opioid dependence. Our analysis is based on administrative data covering the universe of Austrian births from 1984 to 1990. We consider prescription...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012662692
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The intergenerational transmission of opioid dependence: Evidence from administrative data
Ahammer, Alexander; Halla, Martin - 2020
To address the opioid crisis, it is crucial to understand its origins. We provide evidence for the intergenerational transmission of opioid dependence. Our analysis is based on administrative data covering the universe of Austrian births from 1984 to 1990. We consider prescription opioids and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012234261
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The downward spiral
Greenwood, Jeremy; Guner, Nezih; Kopecky, Karen A. - 2022
There have been more than 500,000 opioid overdose deaths since 2000. To analyze the opioid epidemic, we construct a model where individuals, with and without pain, choose whether to misuse opioids knowing the probabilities of addiction and dying. These odds are functions of opioid use. Markov...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014278374
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The price of violence: Consequences of violent crime in Sweden
Ornstein, Petra - 2017
incident. The results suggest that violent crime has large and persistent effects on mortality, suicide, earnings, work status …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012039275
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Antidepressants and the Suicide Rate: Is There Really a Connection?
Dahlberg, Matz; Lundin, Douglas - 2005
Recent research claims that the major part of the observed reduction in suicide rates during the 1990's can be … reinvestigate the issue. After controlling for other covariates, observed as well as unobserved, that might affect the suicide rate …, we find, overall, no statistically significant effects from antidepressants on the suicide rate; when we do get …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010321555
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Motorcycle fatalities revisited: A classical and Bayesian analysis
Fowles, Richard; Loeb, Peter D.; Permpoonwiwat, … - 2017
This paper examines the determinants of motorcycle fatality rates using panel data and classical and Bayesian statistical methods. It focuses on five variables in particular: universal helmet laws, partial helmet laws, cell phone use, suicidal propensities, and beer consumption. Universal helmet...
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The two faces of independence: Betweenness and homotheticity
Burghart, Daniel R.; Epper, Thomas; Fehr, Ernst - 2014
Many studies document failures of expected utility's key assumption, the independence axiom. Here, we show that independence can be decomposed into two distinct axioms - betweenness and homotheticity - and that these two axioms are necessary and sufficient for independence. Thus, independence...
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Subprime consumer credit demand: evidence from a lender's pricing experiment
Alan, Sule; Dumitrescu, Ruxandra; Loranth, Gyongyi - 2011
We test the interest rate sensitivity of subprime credit card borrowers using a unique panel data set from a UK credit card company. We were given details of a randomized interest rate experiment conducted by the lender between October 2006 and January 2007. Access to such information is rare....
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Making sense of the subprime crisis
Gerardi, Kristopher S.; Lehnert, Andreas; Sherland, Shane M. - 2009
This paper explores the question of whether market participants could have or should have anticipated the large increase in foreclosures that occurred in 2007 and 2008. Most of these foreclosures stemmed from loans originated in 2005 and 2006, leading many to suspect that lenders originated a...
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What explains differences in foreclosure rates? A response to Piskorski, Seru, and Vig
Adelino, Manuel; Gerardi, Kristopher; Willen, Paul - 2010
In this note we discuss the findings in Piskorski, Seru, and Vig (2010) as well as the authors' interpretation of their results. First, we find that small changes to the set of covariates used by Piskorski, Seru, and Vig significantly reduce the magnitude of the differences in foreclosure rates...
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