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Stephen Paolillo
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Economics PhD student at UC Davis focusing on topics in Applied Microeconomics including crime, drugs, and housing. Formerly at California Policy Lab. He/him.
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Just realized I forgot to put alt text on the abstract. Here it is again (had to shorten it a bit to fit Bluesky's character limit on alt text, but it should read very similarly):
In this paper, I examine the effect that recreational legalization has had on the illegal market for marijuana in the Pacific Northwest. My first analysis involves how markets change within states that legalize. I develop a municipality-level measure on whether illegal drug markets were larger (per capita) than the median market and use that in a difference-in-difference analysis, pre- and post-legalization. I find that, post-legalization, municipalities where the illegal drug market was more rampant had less illegal marijuana activity post-legalization, controlling for municipality and year fixed effects. In my second analysis, I examine how markets changed across state borders in illegal marijuana states. I find conflicting results here, where municipalities closer to legal dispensaries across the Idaho border had higher arrest rates , while those municipalities in Oregon pre-legalization but post-Washington legalization close to Washington dispensaries had lower arrest rates.
September 20, 2024 at 1:31 PM
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Hi all, I'm Stephen Paolillo from University of California, Davis. My #EconJMP studies how the legalization of marijuana affected illegal markets not only in a state that legalizes, but in a state that borders legalizing states. sites.google.com/ucdavis.edu/...
September 16, 2024 at 1:04 PM