| 来源类型 | Working Paper |
| 规范类型 | 报告 |
| DOI | 10.3386/w25787 |
| 来源ID | Working Paper 25787 |
| Can Economic Policies Reduce Deaths of Despair? | |
| William H. Dow; Anna Godøy; Christopher A. Lowenstein; Michael Reich | |
| 发表日期 | 2019-04-29 |
| 出版年 | 2019 |
| 语种 | 英语 |
| 摘要 | Do minimum wages and the EITC mitigate rising “deaths of despair?” We leverage state variation in these policies over time to estimate event study and difference-in-differences models of deaths due to drug overdose, suicide, and alcohol-related causes. Our causal models find no significant effects on drug or alcohol-related mortality, but do find significant reductions in non-drug suicides. A 10 percent minimum wage increase reduces non-drug suicides among low-educated adults by 2.7 percent; the comparable EITC figure is 3.0 percent. Placebo tests and event-study models support our causal research design. Increasing both policies by 10 percent would likely prevent a combined total of more than 700 suicides each year. |
| 主题 | Health, Education, and Welfare ; Health ; Poverty and Wellbeing |
| URL | https://www.nber.org/papers/w25787 |
| 来源智库 | National Bureau of Economic Research (United States) |
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| 资源类型 | 智库出版物 |
| 条目标识符 | http://119.78.100.153/handle/2XGU8XDN/583460 |
| 推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714 | William H. Dow,Anna Godøy,Christopher A. Lowenstein,et al. Can Economic Policies Reduce Deaths of Despair?. 2019. |
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