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Lethal Unemployment Bonuses? Substitution and Income Effects on Substance Abuse, 2020-21

Mulligan, Casey B. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022

Marginal prices fell, and disposable incomes increased, for drug and alcohol consumers during the pandemic. Most of the amount, timing, and composition of the 240,000 deaths involving alcohol and drugs since early 2020 can be explained by income effects and category-specific price changes. For...

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The Intergenerational Effects of Parental Leave : Exploiting Forty Years of U.S. Policy Variation

Flores, Andrea M.; Gayle, George-Levi; Hincapié, Andrés - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023

mobility in education, stems from heterogeneity in the effects of the policies: children of mothers with fewer years of … education benefit more. As a potential mechanism, we find that the policies increased mothers' time investments in children and … parental decisions (labor market, investments in children, and fertility). We merge rich sources of historical information on …

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Prescription Drug Monitoring Programs, Opioid Abuse, and Crime

Dave, Dhaval - 2018

We study the spillover effects of prescription drug monitoring programs (PDMPs) on crime, and in the process inform how policies that restrict access to Rx opioids per se within the healthcare system would impact broader non-health domains. In response to the substantial increase in opioid use...

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Substance Abuse during the Pandemic : Implications for Labor-Force Participation

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--and have still not fully recovered. At the same time, substance-abuse deaths were elevated during the pandemic relative to trend indicating an increase in the number of...

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Non-Covid Excess Deaths, 2020-21 : Collateral Damage of Policy Choices?

Mulligan, Casey B.; Arnott, Robert D. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022

similar for each of the 18-44, 45-64, and over-65 age groups, with essentially no aggregate excess deaths of children …

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COVID-19 Has Strengthened the Relationship Between Alcohol Consumption and Domestic Violence

Chalfin, Aaron; Danagoulian, Shooshan; Deza, Monica - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021

A large body of evidence documents a link between alcohol consumption and violence involving intimate partners and close family members. Recent scholarship suggests that since the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic and subsequent stay-at-home orders, there has been a marked increase in domestic...

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Socio-Demographic Factors Associated with Self-Protecting Behavior during the Covid-19 Pandemic

Papageorge, Nicholas W. - 2020

Disease spread is in part a function of individual behavior. We examine the factors predicting individual behavior during the Covid-19 pandemic in the United States using novel data collected by Belot et al. (2020). Among other factors, we show that people with lower income, less flexible work...

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Behavior and the Dynamics of Epidemics

Atkeson, Andrew - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021

I use a model of private and public behavior to mitigate disease transmission during the COVID pandemic over the past year in the United States to address two questions: What dynamics of infections and deaths should we expect to see from a pandemic? What are our options for mitigating the impact...

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Schools, Job Flexibility, and Married Women's Labor Supply : Evidence From the COVID-19 Pandemic

Hansen, Benjamin; Sabia, Joseph J.; Schaller, Jessamyn - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022

school-aged children, while remote work may mitigate effects for mothers of younger children … associated with significant increases in employment and hours among married women with school-aged children, with no measurable … effects on labor supply in comparison groups. Employment effects of school reopenings are concentrated among mothers of older …

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The Missing Baby Bust : The Consequences of the COVID-19 Pandemic for Contraceptive Use, Pregnancy, and Childbirth among Low-Income Women

Bailey, Martha J.; Bart, Lea J.; Lang, Vanessa Wanner - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022

Multiple episodes in U.S. history demonstrate that birth rates fall in response to recessions. However, the 2020 COVID-19 recession differed from earlier periods in that employment and access to contraception and abortion fell, as reproductive health centers across the country temporarily closed...

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