Victoria Barone
Department of Economics
Assistant Professor, Department of Economics
- Applied economics with research interests at the intersection of public, health and labor economics
- Optimal design of paid sick leave systems
- Origin and unfolding of the opioid epidemic
- Intermediate Microeconomics
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The New Yorker
Did the Opioid Epidemic Fuel Donald Trump’s Return to the White House?
November 26, 2024
The study, which was authored by Carolina Arteaga, of the University of Toronto, and Victoria Barone, of Notre Dame, takes aim at a specific problem: because the effects of the opioid epidemic have often been worst in areas of the country that have also suffered from depopulation and deindustrialization, and which have been exposed to the NAFTA and China shocks, the social and political consequences of the drugs have been a little tricky to separate from the more general experience of economic hardship and decline.
The Economist
Places ravaged by opioids are giving Republicans the upper hand
January 05, 2024
To try to isolate the role of the epidemic on voting, Carolina Arteaga and Victoria Barone, respectively economists at the University of Toronto and the University of Notre Dame, started by looking at areas where opioids had been heavily prescribed when they first hit the market in the 1990s.
The New York Times
Democrats and Republicans Are Living in Different Worlds
July 26, 2023
In a paper published this month, “Democracy and the Opioid Epidemic,” Carolina Arteaga and Victoria Barone, economists at the University of Toronto and Notre Dame, found that an analysis of House elections from 1982 to 2020 revealed that “greater exposure to the opioid epidemic continuously increased the Republican vote share in the House starting in 2006.