The labor market effects of environmental regulations in emerging economies are largely unexplored. This paper examines whether and how employment and sulfur dioxide (SO2) emissions are affected by the environmental cadre evaluation (ECE) policy in China. Our theoretical analyses suggest that...

The opioid epidemic is a national public health emergency. As the number of fa- tal overdoses and drug abuse skyrockets, children of opioid-dependent parents are at increased risk of being neglected, abused or orphaned. While some studies have examined the effects of policies introduced by...

China implemented the environmental cadre evaluation (ECE) policy at the end of 2005, elevating environmental priority to the top tier in the cadre evaluation system. This paper theoretically and empirically examines the labor market effect of the ECE policy in China, with a focus on...

The opioid epidemic is a national public health emergency. As the number of fatal overdoses and drug abuse skyrockets, children of opioid-dependent parents are at increased risk of being neglected, abused or orphaned. While some studies have examined the effects of policies introduced by states...

Over the last two decades, the number of delivering mothers using or dependent on opiates has increased dramatically, giving rise to a five-fold increase in the proportion of babies born with neonatal abstinence syndrome (NAS). First, the current study documents NAS trends in the United States...