Title
Effect of Higher Education on Opioid Overdose Deaths: A Case Study of the US
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Project Type
Oral Presentation
Publication Date
4-23-2020
Department or Program
Economics
College
College of Arts and Sciences
Faculty Mentor #1
Dhar, Amrita
Abstract
Opioid abuse is rising and is a serious epidemic that currently has a major impact on many Americans. It places a burden on all American citizens and American institutions through healthcare and pharmaceutical companies, while making it difficult to create a healthy culture for future generations. People tend to think of opioid abuse to occur in lower-income populations and to be more correlated with uneducated individuals. We estimate the effect of having received some college education or more on overdose deaths across the U.S. We use having some college education or more and standard high school education. We find that people who have obtained some form of higher education were likely to be significantly impacted by the opioid crisis.
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