NBER sentences which made me laugh

by Tyler Cowen on June 13, 2006 at 6:48 pm in Data Source | Permalink

Higher hamburger prices may reduce the probability and frequency of use of marijuana and the frequency of smoking among drivers.

Well, you didn’t think the cross-elasticities were zero, did you? Here is the paper.

5 comments

CK June 13, 2006 at 7:05 pm: Well what about the munchies effect? MaryJane and food are complimentary goods.
bp June 13, 2006 at 9:40 pm: especially sliders
mickslam June 13, 2006 at 11:25 pm: Why am I smiling? Is it this new and useless information I have added to my brain – thank you, Tyler – or this hamburger I am eating, right now?
DK June 14, 2006 at 8:41 am: Hmm. So would minimum wage increases also lead to increased drug use?
Jason Voorhees June 14, 2006 at 12:03 pm: Wow. Sara Markowitz. She has become one of my favorite economists lately. She’s got a great paper I heard last year at the SEA on the impact that anti-depressants had on suicide (I think it was anti-depressants, anyway; it was whatever the FDA had issued a warning on last year) that was really shocking (found a connection). And she’s so prolific!

Comments on this entry are closed.