Prices and Policies in Opioid Markets

• 成果类型: Article
• 署名作者: Mulligan, Casey B.
• 署名单位: University of Chicago; National Bureau of Economic Research
• 刊物名称: JOURNAL OF POLITICAL ECONOMY
• ISSN/ISSBN: 0022-3808
• DOI: 10.1086/730381
• 发表日期: 2024
• 页码: 3461-3499
• 关键词: ETHNIC DISPARITIES; RETAIL MARKET; heroin; emergency; CRISIS; IMPACT; MODEL; care

摘要

Opioid mortality increases have been linked to both lax and restrictive opioid prescription regulations. Modeling choice between prescription and illicitly manufactured opioid sources helps reconcile the apparently contradictory empirical findings. It also identifies groups responding opposite of the average and applies previous studies to new supply conditions. Organized around the two supply channels, a policy database is assembled that reveals distinct pricing phases during 1999-2021. Consistent with the model, during the later phases the relationship between the opioid fatality rate (measured from death certificates) and its composition changes sign, minors' fatality rates trend opposite of adults', and the black-white gap changes sign.