Originally published: April 14, 2020
Benjamin Hansen talks about how legalizing marijuana in some states affects cross-state sales of the drug.
“Federalism, Partial Prohibition, and Cross-Border Sales: Evidence from Recreational Marijuana” (https://www.nber.org/papers/w23762) by Benjamin Hansen, Keaton Miller, and Caroline Weber.
Other research we discuss in this episode:
“Medical Marijuana Laws, Traffic Fatalities, and Alcohol Consumption” (https://www.jstor.org/stable/pdf/10.1086/668812.pdf?casa_token=bStp0LTziREAAAAA%3AxlT8LeYesjpgDYmelAhGkSt9T8WN9UBFpgMp10S98P2DGceRKDLyu-9Lr8YZ7o8QsfczY2onokYSoFtPbKNByUzw5GZElM30q_XrtjD1h61t0hURVB5h) by Mark D. Anderson, Benjamin Hansen, and Daniel I. Rees.
“Early Evidence on Recreational Marijuana Legalization and Traffic Fatalities” (https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/ecin.12751) by Benjamin Hansen, Keaton Miller, and Caroline Weber.
“Do Medical Marijuana Laws Increase Hard Drug Use?” (https://www.jstor.org/stable/pdf/10.1086/684043.pdf?refreqid=excelsior%3Afd489ff48a655a1aed8b8c61af7b9684) by Yu-Wei Luke Chu.
“The Effect of Medical Marijuana Laws on Adolescent and Adult Use of Marijuana, Alcohol, and Other Substances” (https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jhealeco.2015.03.007) by Janet Cummings, Jason Hockenberry, and Hefei Wen.
“The Effect of Alcohol Availability on Marijuana Use: Evidence from the Minimum Legal Drinking Age” (https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0167629611001718) by Benjamin Crost and Santiago Guerrero.
“Medical Marijuana Laws and Teen Marijuana Use” (https://ideas.repec.org/a/oup/amlawe/v17y2015i2p495-528..html) by Mark D. Anderson, Benjamin Hansen, and Daniel I. Rees.
“Association of Marijuana Laws with Teen Marijuana Use: New Estimates from the Youth Risk Behavior Surveys” (https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamapediatrics/article-abstract/2737637) by Mark D. Anderson, Benjamin Hansen, Daniel I. Rees, and Joseph J. Sabia.
“Medical Marijuana Laws and Adolescent Marijuana Use in the USA from 1991 to 2014: Results from Annual, Repeated Cross-Sectional Surveys” (https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lanpsy/article/PIIS2215-0366(15)00217-5/fulltext) by Magdalena Cerdá, Tianshu Feng, Sandro Galea, Deborah S Hasin, Katherine M Keyes, Patrick M O’Malley, Rosalie Pacula, John Schulenberg, and Melanie Wall.
“The Effects of Recreational Marijuana Legalization and Dispensing on Opioid Mortality” (https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/ecin.12819) by Jesse Burkhardt, Nathan W. Chan, and Matthew Flyr.
“Do Medical Marijuana Laws Reduce Addictions and Deaths Related to Pain Killers?” (https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0167629617311852) by Mireille Jacobson, Rosalie Liccardo Pacula, and David Powell.
“Is Legal Pot Crippling Mexican Drug Trafficking Organisations? The Effect of Medical Marijuana Laws on US Crime.” (https://academic.oup.com/ej/article/129/617/375/5237193) by Evelina Gavrilova, Takuma Kamada, and Floris Zoutman.
“Playing with Fire: Cigarettes, Taxes, and Competition from the Internet” (https://www.aeaweb.org/articles?id=10.1257%2Fpol.2.1.131) by Austan Goolsbee, Michael F. Lovenheim, and Joel Slemrod.
“Using Littered Pack Data to Estimate Cigarette Tax Avoidance in NYC.” (https://ideas.repec.org/a/ntj/journl/v66y2013i3p635-668.html) by Howard Chernick and David Merriman.
“The Micro-Geography of Tax Avoidance: Evidence from Littered Cigarette Packs in Chicago” (https://doi.org/10.1257/pol.2.2.61) by David Merriman.
“Tax Revenues When Substances Substitute: Marijuana, Alcohol, and Tobacco.” (https://economics.nd.edu/assets/313828/miller_seo.pdf) by Keaton Miller and Boyoung Seo.
“Are Our Hopes Too High? Testing Cannabis Legalization’s Potential to Reduce Criminalization” (https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3330294) by Ed Rubin.
“Officer Discretion in Vehicle Stops and Searches.” by Annalise Helm and Benjamin Hansen [draft in preparation].
“Regressive Sin Taxes with an Application to the Optimal Soda Tax.” (https://academic.oup.com/qje/article-abstract/134/3/1557/5499049?redirectedFrom=fulltext) by Hunt Alcott, Benjamin B. Lockwood, and Dmitry Taubinsky.
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