The Intergenerational Transmission of Opioid Dependence: Evidence from Administrative Data

Alexander Ahammer and Martin Halla

No 2020-02, CDL Aging, Health, Labor working papers from The Christian Doppler (CD) Laboratory Aging, Health, and the Labor Market, Johannes Kepler University Linz, Austria

Abstract: To address the opioid crisis, it is crucial to understand its origins. We provide evidence for the intergenerational transmission of opioid dependence. Our analysis is based on administrative data covering the universe of Austrian births from 1984 to 1990. We consider prescription opioids and have a close proxy for addiction to illicit opioids. We find that, if at least one parent is using illicit opioids, the likelihood of the child using increases from 1.1 to 6.1%. For prescription opioids, we observe an increase from 4.6 to 7.7%. Both associations are stable and do not change when controlling for environmental variables.

Keywords: Opioids; prescription opioids; illicit opioids; heroin; addiction; drug abuse; intergenerational transmission; intergenerational correlation (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: I12 I14 I18 J62 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 22 pages
Date: 2020-06
Note: English
References: Add references at CitEc
Citations: View citations in EconPapers (1)

Downloads: (external link)
http://cdecon.jku.at/wp-content/uploads/wp2002CD.pdf (application/pdf)
Our link check indicates that this URL is bad, the error code is: 404 Not Found

Related works:
Working Paper: The Intergenerational Transmission of Opioid Dependence: Evidence from Administrative Data (2020)
Working Paper: The Intergenerational Transmission of Opioid Dependence: Evidence from Administrative Data (2020)
This item may be available elsewhere in EconPapers: Search for items with the same title.

Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text

Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:jku:cdlwps:wp2002

Access Statistics for this paper

More papers in CDL Aging, Health, Labor working papers from The Christian Doppler (CD) Laboratory Aging, Health, and the Labor Market, Johannes Kepler University Linz, Austria Contact information at EDIRC.
Bibliographic data for series maintained by René Böheim (rene.boeheim@jku.at).