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, beginning with a description of marijuana reform efforts in Arizona and key facets of the Smart and Safe Arizona Act. We then … (and elsewhere) can and should help build a reform infrastructure that could not only ensure record relief to redress past …
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Simple OLS estimates of the effect of school-imposed penalties for drug use on a student's consumption of marijuana are biased if both are determined by unobservable school or individual attributes. The potential reverse causality is also a challenge to retrieving estimates of the causal...
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We present evidence on how The Quantum Opportunity Program (QOP hereafter) worked in the US. While the program was regarded as successful in the short-term, in the long-run its educational results were modest and its effects on risky behaviors detrimental. Exploiting control group's...
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In this paper we estimate the effects of expanding access to substance-abuse treatment on local crime. We do so using an identification strategy that leverages variation driven by substance-abuse-treatment facility openings and closings measured at the county level. The results indicate that...
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In the 2000s, a major educational reform in Germany reduced the academic high school duration by one year while keeping … the reform on youth crime rates and substance abuse using administrative police crime statistics, administrative student … enrollment data, and a student drug survey. The staggered implementation of the reform in different Länder-age-groups allows for …
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