Unemployment insurance and opioid prescriptions during the great recession.
This is the first U.S. study on the causal relationship between unemployment insurance (UI) expansions during the Great Recession and the use of prescribed opioids. Using annual county‐level prescription data from 2006 to 2013 and plausibly exogenous variation in state and federal policies, we estim...
| Publicado en: | Southern Economic Journal Vol. 91; no. 2; pp. 414 - 436 |
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Wiley-Blackwell
Oct2024
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