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| Source | Michael Perelman |
| Date | 03/09/16/23:28 |
| "Does Marijuana Use Impair Human Capital Formation?"
BY: ROSALIE LICCARDO PACULA The RAND Corporation National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) JEANNE S. RINGEL The RAND Corporation KAREN E. ROSS University of Michigan at Ann Arbor Population Studies Center Document: Available from the SSRN Electronic Paper Collection: http://papers.ssrn.com/paper.taf?abstract_id=444302 Paper ID: NBER Working Paper No. W9963 Date: September 2003 ABSTRACT: In this paper we examine the relationship between marijuana use and human capital formation by examining performance on standardized tests among a nationally representative sample of youths from the National Education Longitudinal Survey. We find that much of the negative association between cross-sectional measures of marijuana use and cognitive ability appears to be attenuated by individual differences in school attachment and general deviance. However, difference-in-difference estimates examining changes in test scores across 10th and 12th grade reveal that marijuana use remains statistically associated with a 15% reduction in performance on standardized math tests. |
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