| 来源类型 | Working Paper |
| 规范类型 | 报告 |
| DOI | 10.3386/w26551 |
| 来源ID | Working Paper 26551 |
| Abandoned by Coal, Swallowed by Opioids? | |
| Gilbert E. Metcalf; Qitong Wang | |
| 发表日期 | 2019-12-16 |
| 出版年 | 2019 |
| 语种 | 英语 |
| 摘要 | Opioid addiction and mortality skyrocketed over the past decade. A casual look at the geographic incidence of opioid mortality shows sharply higher mortality rates in the Appalachian region, especially in coal-mining areas. This has led observers to make a link that was characterized by one newspaper as “abandoned by coal, swallowed by opioids.” We test that theory using restricted death data and mine level coal production data. Specifically, we examine whether higher reliance on coal mining in a county’s economy leads to higher or lower opioid mortality. We find a positive relationship between the share of coal miners among total local labor force and county-level opioid mortality rates. This contradicts the “abandoned by coal, swallowed by opioids” story. Rather our results suggest that the higher rates of injury in underground coal mining (in particular) lead to greater amounts of opioid consumption and mortality. An implication is that the decline in coal mining in the United States may have a positive spillover in the form of reduced mortality from opioid use. |
| 主题 | Health, Education, and Welfare ; Health ; Environmental and Resource Economics |
| URL | https://www.nber.org/papers/w26551 |
| 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/584225 |
| 推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714 | Gilbert E. Metcalf,Qitong Wang. Abandoned by Coal, Swallowed by Opioids?. 2019. |
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| w26551.pdf（710KB） | 智库出版物 | 限制开放 | CC BY-NC-SA | 浏览 | ||
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