Spillover Effects of Opioid Abuse on Skilled Human Capital and Innovation Activity

The authors thank David Beheshti; Lauren Cohen; Shan Ge; Brian Gibbons; Andrei Gonçalves; Nandini Gupta; Matthew Gustafson; Joseph Henry; Kateryna Holland; Xuelin Li; Steven Malliaris; Jeff Netter; Andrew Roberts; Tim Simin; Merih Sevilir; David Slusky; Jack Strauss; Eva Steiner; Andrew Zhang; and John Zhu; seminar participants at Pennsylvania State University, University of Denver, University of Georgia, University of Kansas Department of Economics, University of Kansas Department of Finance, University of Mississippi, University of Missouri, University of Nevada Las Vegas, and the 2018 CMU-OSU-PITT-PSU conference PhD session for helpful comments; David Haushalter and Jewon Shin for data assistance; the National Center for Health Statistics (NCHS) for providing restricted-use vital statistics data under NCHS Data Use Agreement No. DVS2021-0159; Golnaz Bahrami, Rob Nicholas, Jess Cornaggia, and Qiang Wang for assistance with CoreLogic Owner Transfer and Sales data; and Bob Anderson at the Mortality Statistics Branch of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention for helpful insight on NCHS micromortality data. This project uses restricted-use protected health information from the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) under Data Use Agreement RSCH-2021-57517 and has HIPAA approval from the University of Kansas’s internal review board (IRB).