Estimating the cost to society of individual crimes is essential to the economic evaluation of
many social programs, such as substance abuse treatment and community policing. A review …

Background: This report describes the 48‐month efficacy and benefit‐cost analysis of Project
TrEAT (Trial for Early Alcohol Treatment), a randomized controlled trial of brief physician …

Background. Few studies have estimated the economic costs and benefits of brief physician
advice in managed care settings. Objective. To conduct a benefit-cost analysis of brief …

Telemedicine programs provide specialty health services to remote populations using
telecommunications technology. This innovative approach to medical care delivery has been …

Although fixed-effects models for panel data are now widely recognized as powerful tools for
longitudinal data analysis, the limitations of these models are not well known. We provide a …

Few studies have examined the relationships between drug use, health services utilization
and the cost of medical care for a community-based sample of drug users. The purpose of …

Moderate alcohol users (approximately two drinks per day on average) have recently been
shown to have a lower risk of coronary heart disease relative to abstainers and heavy …

Using abstracted grades and other data from the National Longitudinal Survey of Adolescent
Health, we investigate the relationships between cumulative high school grade point …

Individuals can react to financial stress in a variety of ways, such as reducing discretionary
spending or engaging in risky behaviors. This article investigates the effect of changing …

This paper examines the effects of alcohol use on high school students’ quality of learning.
We estimate fixed-effects models using data from the National Longitudinal Study of …