期刊
JOURNAL OF HEALTH ECONOMICS
卷 74, 期 -, 页码 -出版社
ELSEVIER
DOI: 10.1016/j.jhealeco.2020.102372
关键词
Mortality; Deaths of despair; Suicide; Minimum wage; Earned income tax credit
资金
- Robert Wood Johnson Foundation [75494]
- National Institute of Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism [T32AA007240, P50AA005595]
- Norwegian Research Council [256678]
Do minimum wages and the earned income tax credit (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, and 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. (C) 2020 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
作者
我是这篇论文的作者
点击您的名字以认领此论文并将其添加到您的个人资料中。
推荐
暂无数据