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Re:Opioid Use Could Explain 20% of the Drop in American Men ... by airza on Thursday September 07, 2017 @12:00PM (#15193034)
for some reason you left out the quote just previous to that, “I do think it is related to declining labor-force participation among prime-age workers,” which indicates she thinks there is a relationship?
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Re:Opioid Use Could Explain 20% of the Drop in American Men ... by smallnamespace on Thursday September 07, 2017 @12:01PM (#15193047)
Yes on the relationship, no on the direction of causality
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Re:Opioid Use Could Explain 20% of the Drop in American Men ... by dv_dt on Thursday September 07, 2017 @12:07PM (#15193111)
Misread/paste - added the full quote. I don't think it really changes Yellen's position FWIW which is basically correlation != causation.
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