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AMERICAN ECONOMIC REVIEW-INSIGHTS
Volume 2, Issue 1, Pages 47-63Publisher
AMER ECONOMIC ASSOC
DOI: 10.1257/aeri.20180396
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- National Science Foundation [SES-1427027]
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We investigate the impact of a large and persistent economic shock on deaths of despair. We find that areas more exposed to a plausibly exogenous change in international trade policy exhibit relative increases in fatal drug overdoses, specifically among whites. We show that these results are not driven by pre-existing trends in mortality rates, that the estimated relationships are robust to controls for state-level legislation pertaining to opioid availability and health care, and that the impact of the policy change on mortality coincides with a deterioration in labor market conditions and uptake of disability insurance.
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