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], 2022-12-10. https://doi.org/10.3886/E182342V2
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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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