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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2021 May 1.
Published in final edited form as: J Health Econ. 2020 Mar 4;71:102286. doi: 10.1016/j.jhealeco.2019.102286

Table 4:

Opioid-Related Mortality by Age Group

Outcome: Opioid-Related Mortality per 100,000
Panel A: Men
Age Group: 10–19 20–29 30–39 40–49 50–59 60–64 65+
% Elderly2003 × Post −0.008
(0.048)		 0.547**
(0.208)		 0.985***
(0.309)		 0.497*
(0.264)		 0.596***
(0.221)		 0.217*
(0.109)		 −0.002
(0.024)
Mean Outcome: 1.13 7.02 7.83 9.79 7.15 2.72 0.82
Panel B: Women
Age Group: 10–19 20–29 30–39 40–49 50–59 60–64 65+
% Elderly2003 × Post −0.007
(0.018)		 0.421***
(0.155)		 0.413**
(0.167)		 0.603**
(0.270)		 0.269*
(0.148)		 0.171**
(0.078)		 0.023
(0.035)
Mean Outcome: 0.35 2.52 4.34 6.89 5.52 2.53 0.87
P-Value (Men=Women) 0.922 0.434 0.042 0.384 0.008 0.816 0.450

Notes:

***

Significance 1%,

**

Significance 5%,

*

Significance 10%.

N=612 for all cells. Standard errors in parentheses adjusted for clustering at state level. All regressions weighted by population. Other controls included: state fixed effects, year fixed effects, the unemployment rate, % white, 6 age group shares, % no college, % some college, PDMP, medical marijuana law, legal and operational medical marijuana dispensaries, and pain clinic regulations.