This paper quantifies the relationship between local opioid prescription rates and labor
market outcomes in the United States between 2006 and 2016. To understand this …

This chapter uses quarterly county-level data from 2006 to 2014 to examine the direction of
causality in the relationship between per capita opioid prescription rates and employment-to …

We examine the effect of prescription opioids on county labor market outcomes, using data
from the Prescription Drug Monitoring Programs of ten US states and labor data from the …

We show a negative effect of opioid prescriptions on subsequent individual employment
among employers in our sample, using doctor opioid prescribing propensity as our …

The areas most affected by the opioid crisis have witnessed deteriorating economic
conditions, although it is unclear if this represents a causal relationship. I provide new …

Labor force participation and employment rates have declined in the United States since the
late 1990s. An emerging literature considers the role of the opioid crisis on labor outcomes …

The dataset summarized in this article is a combination of several of US federal data
resources for the years 2006-2013, containing county-level variables for opioid pill volumes …

Without the opioid epidemic, American life expectancy would not have declined prior to
2020. The epidemic was sparked by the development and marketing of a new generation of …

Over the past two decades, opioid overdose deaths contributed to the dramatic rise in all-
cause mortality among non-Hispanic Whites. To date, efforts among scholars to understand …

We examine how deaths and emergency department (ED) visits related to use of opioid
analgesics (opioids) and other drugs vary with macroeconomic conditions. As the county …