Due to COVID-19, 33 states banned elective medical procedures, and 13 of these states included surgical abortions. We collected street addresses of abortion clinics and linked them to SafeGraph's data on counts of visitors. We found a 32 percent decrease in clinics visits in February-May of 2020...

The present paper employs the method of generalized synthetic controls to characterize the nascent legal marijuana industry in California, Colorado, Oregon, and Washington. We find over that 120,000 marijuana related jobs have been created in these states following recreational legalization,...