{"database":"biostudies-literature","file_versions":[],"scores":null,"additional":{"submitter":["Wolf DA"],"funding":["NIA NIH HHS","National Institute on Aging","Robert Wood Johnson Foundation"],"pagination":["681-688"],"full_dataset_link":["https://www.ebi.ac.uk/biostudies/studies/S-EPMC10164355"],"repository":["biostudies-literature"],"omics_type":["Unknown"],"volume":["63(5)"],"pubmed_abstract":["<h4>Introduction</h4>The goal of this study was to estimate how state preemption laws that prohibit local authority to raise the minimum wage or mandate paid sick leave have contributed to working-age mortality from suicide, homicide, drug overdose, alcohol poisoning, and transport accidents.<h4>Methods</h4>County-by-quarter death counts by cause and sex for 1999-2019 were regressed on minimum wage levels and hours of paid sick-leave requirements, controlling for time-varying covariates and place- and time-specific fixed effects. The model coefficients were then used to predict expected reductions in mortality if the preemption laws were repealed. Analyses were conducted during January 2022-April 2022.<h4>Results</h4>Paid sick-leave requirements were associated with lower mortality. These associations were statistically significant for suicide and homicide deaths among men and for homicide and alcohol-related deaths among women. Mortality may decline by more than 5% in large central metropolitan counties currently constrained by preemption laws if they were able to mandate a 40-hour annual paid sick-leave requirement.<h4>Conclusions</h4>State legislatures' preemption of local authority to enact health-promoting legislation may be contributing to the worrisome trends in external causes of death."],"journal":["American journal of preventive medicine"],"pubmed_title":["U.S. State Preemption Laws and Working-Age Mortality."],"pmcid":["PMC10164355"],"funding_grant_id":["P30AG66583","P30 AG066583","R24 AG065159","R24 AG045061","76103"],"pubmed_authors":["Wolf DA","Monnat SM","Montez JK"],"additional_accession":[]},"is_claimable":false,"name":"U.S. State Preemption Laws and Working-Age Mortality.","description":"<h4>Introduction</h4>The goal of this study was to estimate how state preemption laws that prohibit local authority to raise the minimum wage or mandate paid sick leave have contributed to working-age mortality from suicide, homicide, drug overdose, alcohol poisoning, and transport accidents.<h4>Methods</h4>County-by-quarter death counts by cause and sex for 1999-2019 were regressed on minimum wage levels and hours of paid sick-leave requirements, controlling for time-varying covariates and place- and time-specific fixed effects. The model coefficients were then used to predict expected reductions in mortality if the preemption laws were repealed. Analyses were conducted during January 2022-April 2022.<h4>Results</h4>Paid sick-leave requirements were associated with lower mortality. These associations were statistically significant for suicide and homicide deaths among men and for homicide and alcohol-related deaths among women. Mortality may decline by more than 5% in large central metropolitan counties currently constrained by preemption laws if they were able to mandate a 40-hour annual paid sick-leave requirement.<h4>Conclusions</h4>State legislatures' preemption of local authority to enact health-promoting legislation may be contributing to the worrisome trends in external causes of death.","dates":{"release":"2022-01-01T00:00:00Z","publication":"2022 Nov","modification":"2026-05-05T02:54:22.711Z","creation":"2025-04-05T10:55:03.208Z"},"accession":"S-EPMC10164355","cross_references":{"pubmed":["36272759"],"doi":["10.1016/j.amepre.2022.06.005"]}}