Social Welfare Returns to Legislative Capacity: Evidence from the Opioid Epidemic

• In Event: The Political Economy of Welfare States

Brief Overview

We argue and show empirically that opioid mortality is in part a function of agency (medical and pharmaceutical boards) oversight failures attributable to a lack of state legislative capacity.

Authors

• David Fortunato, University of California-San Diego

• Srinivas Parinandi, University of Colorado Boulder