Rahi Abouk
@aboukr.bsky.social
Associate Professor of Economics at William Paterson University Director of the Cannabis Research Institute Research on Risky Health Behavior, Environmental Health Shocks, and Health Information Technology
New NBER working paper with @jcmecon.bsky.social and @rlpacula.bsky.social
NBER@nber.org · 8mo agoExamining whether weak enforcement of the minimum legal sales age for cannabis helps explain inconsistency in the effect of legalization on adult and youth cannabis use, from Rahi Abouk, Johanna Catherine Maclean, and Rosalie Liccardo Pacula www.nber.org/papers/w34567
Lisa Cook documented the devastation of the end of Reconstruction. This graph, from her paper "Violence and Economic Activity," shows the effects of Jim Crow on Black patenting and newspapers. As she said on Planet Money: "1899 was the peak year for African American patents per capita. It still is."
New published paper on Covid-19 vaccine mandates!
Catherine Maclean@jcmecon.bsky.social · last yr.Excited to share our Labour Economics paper! @johnsearle.bsky.social @aboukr.bsky.social @sungbinpark.bsky.social We study the extent to which state mandates requiring employees to receive a COVID-19 vaccination impacted U.S. healthcare sector employment www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
It was great to present my work at #UWDemSem! Thank you for the invitation.
UW-Madison CDE@cdeuw.bsky.social · last yr.👏Thank you to CDE Visiting Scholar Dr. Abouk (@aboukr.bsky.social) for joining us today to present at #UWDemSem @cdhauw.bsky.social ➡️Join us next week for our final #UWDemSem of the semester! cde.wisc.edu/events/demsem/
I look forward to meeting @cdeuw.bsky.social colleagues next week during my visit!
UW-Madison CDE@cdeuw.bsky.social · last yr.🩺Next week we are excited to have CDE Visiting Scholar Rahi Abouk (@aboukr.bsky.social) presenting “The Roots of Health Disparities: Access to Physicians in Early 20th Century America” at #UWDemSem ➡️Join us on Tuesday, April 15th, at 12:15pm! @cdhauw.bsky.social cde.wisc.edu/events/demsem/
