Economic studies on the opioid crisis: A review

JC Maclean, J Mallatt, CJ Ruhm, K Simon - 2020 - nber.org
ABSTRACT The United States has experienced an unprecedented crisis related to the
misuse of and addiction to opioids. As of 2018, 128 Americans die each day of an opioid …

The opioid crisis, health, healthcare, and crime: A review of quasi-experimental economic studies

JC Maclean, J Mallatt, CJ Ruhm… - The ANNALS of the …, 2022 - journals.sagepub.com
We review quasi-experimental studies that examine the relationship of opioids to health,
healthcare, and crime in the US Our findings align with the general perception that the …

[BOOK][B] State and local public finance

RC Fisher - 2022 - taylorfrancis.com
State and Local Public Finance provides a comprehensive and sophisticated analysis of
state and local government public finance practices and issues, using the basic tools of …

Conceptualizing legal childhood in the twenty-first century

C Huntington, ES Scott - Michigan Law Review, 2020 - JSTOR
The law governing children is complex, sometimes appearing almost incoherent. The
relatively simple framework established in the Progressive Era, in which parents had primary …

The effect of public insurance expansions on substance use disorder treatment: evidence from the Affordable Care Act

JC Maclean, B Saloner - Journal of Policy Analysis and …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
We examine the effect of Medicaid expansion under the Affordable Care Act (ACA) on
substance use disorder (SUD) treatment utilization and financing. We combine data on …

The moral hazard of lifesaving innovations: naloxone access, opioid abuse, and crime

J Doleac, A Mukherjee - 2018 - econstor.eu
The United States is experiencing an epidemic of opioid abuse. In response, many states
have increased access to naloxone, a drug that can save lives when administered during an …

Comparing three stages of addiction recovery: Long-term recovery and its relation to housing problems, crime, occupation situation, and substance use

TF Martinelli, GE Nagelhout, L Bellaert… - … Prevention and Policy, 2020 - Taylor & Francis
Many studies on addiction recovery focus on recovery initiation and short-term outcomes for
alcohol addictions. In this study, we examine associations between three recovery stages …

Substance abuse treatment centers and local crime

SR Bondurant, JM Lindo, ID Swensen - Journal of Urban Economics, 2018 - Elsevier
In this paper we estimate the effects of expanding access to substance-abuse treatment on
local crime. We do so using an identification strategy that leverages variation driven by …

[PDF][PDF] Mental health and criminal involvement: Evidence from losing medicaid eligibility

E Jácome - Job Market Paper, Princeton University, 2020 - elisajacome.github.io
Policymakers and academics in the US have long debated the root determinants of criminal
behavior. In the 1960s, one dominant strain of thought argued that criminal behavior …

Local access to mental healthcare and crime

M Deza, JC Maclean, K Solomon - Journal of Urban Economics, 2022 - Elsevier
We estimate the effect of local access to office-based mental healthcare on crime. We
leverage variation in the number of mental healthcare offices within a county over the period …