This paper provides the first estimates of the effect of unemployment insurance (UI) on drug overdose deaths. Exploiting both time-series and cross-sectional variation in UI generosity generated by federal and state UI laws, we estimate that a one standard deviation increase in UI generosity...

The opioid crisis in the United States has resulted in a dramatic increase in overdose deaths in the last two decades. This crisis has created an economic ripple that has affected an important engine of growth: research and development (R&D). Using patent data from the United States Patent and...

The US economy accounts for ¼ of the world's GDP. The dream development of USA was busted when the world major financial giants like Lehman Brothers, Bear Sterns, AIG, Merill Lynch etc. saw the unprecedented collapse of financial giants. The large Banks in US according to economists and...