The effects of government transfers on monthly cycles in drug abuse, hospitalization and mortality ☆

By Carlos Dobkin, Steven L. Puller. 2007

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Subfields: Finance, Pediatrics, Perinatology and Child Health, Safety Research

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Citations in the corpus

• Welfare Payments and Crime (2011, background): “Dobkin and Puller (2007) find that welfare recipients increase their consumption of illegal drugs when their checks arrive at the beginning of the month, spurring an increase in hospitalizations and deaths.”
• The First of the Month Effect: Consumer Behavior and Store Responses (2010, unknown): “2 For example Dobkin and Puller (2007) find that that SSI and DI recipients see an increase in drug related hospitalizations and mortality at the beginning of their payment month.”