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The Effects of the Opioid Crisis on Employment: Evidence from Labor Market Flows

Principal Investigator(s):  View help for Principal Investigator(s) Anita Mukherjee, University of Wisconsin-Madison; Daniel Sacks, University of Wisconsin-Madison; Hoyoung Yoo, University of Wisconsin-Madison

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Project Citation: 

Mukherjee, Anita, Sacks, Daniel, and Yoo, Hoyoung. The Effects of the Opioid Crisis on Employment:  Evidence from Labor Market Flows. Ann Arbor, MI: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [distributor], 2022-10-20. https://doi.org/10.3886/E182342V1

Project Description

Summary:  View help for Summary We show that the opioid crisis slows transitions to employment from unemployment and non-participation. We identify the effect of the opioid crisis from cross-state variation in triplicate prescribing regulations, which produced long-lasting reductions in opioid use by reducing the initial distribution of the blockbuster opioid OxyContin. Difference-in-differences estimates show that triplicate regulations induce unemployed and non-participating workers in triplicate states to return to employment about 10 percent faster than workers in non-triplicate states. These estimates imply a 1.1 percentage point higher level of employment in steady state.



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