Recreational marijuana legalization and admission to the foster‐care system.
We estimate the effects of legalized recreational marijuana on entry into the foster‐care system. Exploiting state‐level variation in legalization and its timing, we estimate that legalization decreases foster‐care placements by at least 10%, with larger effects in years after legalization, and for...
| Publicado en: | Economic Inquiry Vol. 60; no. 3; pp. 1311 - 1335 |
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Wiley-Blackwell
Jul2022
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