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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...

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Published in:Southern Economic Journal Vol. 91; no. 2; pp. 414 - 436
Main Authors: Guo, Xiaohui, Peng, Lizhong
Format: Article
Published: Wiley-Blackwell Oct2024
Subjects:
Unemployment insurance
Medical care use
Great Recession, 2008-2013
Standard deviations
Medical prescriptions
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