Recreational Marijuana Sales Legalization and Monday Work Injury Claims

Dong Xiuming ()
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Dong Xiuming: Department of Economics, University of Auckland, Sir Owen G Glenn Building, 12 Grafton Rd, Auckland 1010, New Zealand

The B.E. Journal of Economic Analysis & Policy, 2022, vol. 22, issue 1, 99-121

Abstract: An important stylized fact in the literature is that more Workers’ Compensation claims for difficult-to-diagnose injuries are filed on Monday than on any other day of the week. This paper studies the impact of recreational marijuana sales legalization on Monday work injury claims. Using restricted-use Workers’ Compensation claim data in Oregon and a Difference-in-Differences (DiD) model, I find the probability of overall Monday injuries increase by 4 percentage points after recreational marijuana sales legalization. The event study graphs suggest the medium-term effects appear to equal the short-term effects. Additionally, I do not find strong evidence to support those difficult-to-diagnose Monday injuries disproportionately increase after recreational marijuana sales legalization, suggesting a limited moral hazard of Monday injury claiming behavior after recreational marijuana sales legalization.

Keywords: recreational marijuana; marijuana legalization; workers’ compensation; Monday effect (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: I12 I18 J28 K42 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2022
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DOI: 10.1515/bejeap-2021-0105

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