Marijuana legalization and disability claiming
| Autor: | Johanna Catherine Maclean, Lauren Hersch Nicholas, Keshar M. Ghimire |
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| Rok vydání: | 2020 |
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Recreational Marijuana Use
Marijuana legalization 030503 health policy & services Health Policy 05 social sciences Fixed effects model Legislation Drug United States Social security 03 medical and health sciences Cross-Sectional Studies Unemployment State policy 0502 economics and business Humans Demographic economics Marijuana Use Business 050207 economics 0305 other medical science Disability insurance Legalization Cannabis |
| Zdroj: | Health economicsREFERENCES. 30(2) |
| ISSN: | 1099-1050 |
| Popis: | We study the effect of recent legalization of recreational marijuana use (RMLs) in the United States on Social Security Disability Insurance (SSDI) and Supplemental Security Income (SSI) claiming, proxied by new applications, new beneficiaries, and medical terminations over the period 2001 to 2018. We combine administrative caseload data from the Social Security Administration coupled with state policy changes using two-way fixed effects regression. We find that RML adoption increases new disability application rates and reduces medical terminations overall and for both programs separately. However, there is no change in new beneficiaries post-RML, overall or for either program. We provide suggestive evidence that a potential channel that may explain the observed increases in disability claiming post-RML is marijuana misuse. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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