Journal ArticleAmerican Journal of Health Economics · June 1, 2023
Increases in youth vaping rates and concerns of a new generation of nicotine addicts re-cently prompted an increase in the federal minimum legal purchase age (MLPA) for tobacco products, including e-cigarettes, to 21 years. This study presents the first re ...
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Journal ArticleContemporary Economic Policy · July 2018
Using a regression discontinuity framework, this paper documents a previously unnoticed drop of 7%–8% in the U.S. suicide rate upon reaching age 62 during 1990–2014. This decline is concentrated among men, nearly doubled in size over the most recen ...
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Journal ArticleSouthern Economic Journal · July 2013
Many states have passed child access prevention (CAP) laws, which hold the gun owner responsible if a child gains access to a gun that is not securely stored. Previous research on CAP laws has focused exclusively on gun‐related deaths even though m ...
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Journal ArticleAmerican Economic Review · May 1, 2013
This study is the first in the economics literature to explore the labor market consequences of sexual violence toward women. Using data from the Add Health, we find that sexual violence against women is associated with a 6.6 percent lower probabil ...
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Journal ArticleEconomic Inquiry · April 2009
This paper estimates the impact of fraternity and sorority membership on a wide array of drinking outcomes among respondents to four Harvard College Alcohol Study surveys from 1993 to 2001. Identification is achieved by including prox ...
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Journal ArticleTopics in Economic Analysis & Policy · August 4, 2006
AbstractThis study estimates the effect of hours worked at a part time job on GPA among 12th grade respondents to the annual 19912004 Monitoring the Future surveys. I use two stage least squares (2SLS) wit ...
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Journal ArticleContemporary Economic Policy · January 2006
This article uses 1985–2000 DEA data on marijuana and cocaine prices in various metropolitan areas to empirically test two contrasting theories of the relationship between illegal drug prices at the retail seller and user levels. Regression results ...
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Journal ArticleEconomic Inquiry · January 2003
This article estimates equations for past year cocaine and marijuana use among adult and juvenile respondents of the 1990–97 National Household Surveys on Drug Abuse. Unlike most previous studies, we control for the monetary price of marijuana, pro ...
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Journal ArticleEconomic Inquiry · October 2001
The relationship between cocaine prices and crime has critical implications for U.S. drug policy, but is theoretically indeterminate because cocaine price changes affect crime through changes in both cocaine consumption and expenditures. This paper ...
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