Opioids and Post-COVID Labor-Force Participation
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- Francesco Chiocchio & Jeremy Greenwood & Nezih Guner & Karen Kopecky, 2025. "Opioids and Post-COVID Labor-Force Participation," NBER Working Papers 33717, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc.
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Keywords
Covid; opioids; labor-force participation;All these keywords.
JEL classification:
- I14 - Health, Education, and Welfare - - Health - - - Health and Inequality
- J11 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Demographic Economics - - - Demographic Trends, Macroeconomic Effects, and Forecasts
- J12 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Demographic Economics - - - Marriage; Marital Dissolution; Family Structure
- J21 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Demand and Supply of Labor - - - Labor Force and Employment, Size, and Structure
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This paper has been announced in the following NEP Reports:- NEP-HEA-2025-05-05 (Health Economics)
- NEP-LAB-2025-05-05 (Labour Economics)
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