Adamopoulou, Effrosyni; Greenwood, Jeremy; Guner, Nezih; … - 2024
The role of friends in the US opioid epidemic is examined. Using data from the National Longitudinal Survey of … technique is employed to estimate peer effects in opioid misuse. Severe injuries in the previous year are used as an instrument … for opioid misuse in order to estimate the causal impact of someone misusing opioids on the probability that their best …