Greenwood, Jeremy; Guner, Nezih; Kopecky, Karen - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022
The labor-force participation rates of prime-age U.S. workers dropped in March 2020--the start of the COVID-19 pandemic … lower labor-force participation rates than non-abusers. Could increased substance abuse during the pandemic be a factor … contributing to the fall in labor-force participation? Estimates of the number of additional substance abusers during the pandemic …