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High on life? : medical marijuana laws and suicide

Anderson, D. Mark; Rees, Daniel I.; Sabia, Joseph J. - 2012

Using state-level data for the period 1990 through 2007, we estimate the effect of legalizing medical marijuana on suicide rates. Our results suggest that the passage of a medical marijuana law is associated with an almost 5 percent reduction in the total suicide rate, an 11 percent reduction in...

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Out-of-Pocket Prescription Drug Expenditures and Public Prescription Drug Programs

Alan, Sule; Crossley, Thomas F.; Grootendorst, Paul; … - 2021

Canadian household prescription drug expenditures are studied using different years of the Statistics Canada Family … budget shares by low-income and high-income households before and after the introduction of provincial prescription drug … programs. The evidence is consistent with the view that unlike senior prescription drug subsidies, nonsenior prescription drug …

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Illegal drugs, education, and labor market outcomes

Mezza, Alvaro; Buchinsky, Moshe - In: Journal of econometrics 223 (2021) 2, pp. 454-484

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The welfare implications of addictive substances : a longitudinal study of life satisfaction of drug users

Moschion, Julie; Powdthavee, Nattavudh - 2017

This paper provides an empirical test of the rational addiction model, used in economics to model individuals' consumption of addictive substances, versus the utility misprediction model, used in psychology to explain the discrepancy between people's decision and their subsequent experiences. By...

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Economies of density, team synergies and unobserved heterogeneity : a study of home care services

Bensaïd, Bernard; Croiset, Solen; Gary-Bobo, Robert - 2022

In the home-care services industry, caregivers drive to visit patients scattered in a district and deliver various care services at the patient's home. We use a unique data set, with a standard panel structure, recording the hours of service and the exact number of miles traveled by each...

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