Pacula, Rosalie Liccardo
[Verfasser:in]
;
Ringel, Jeanne
[Sonstige Person, Familie und Körperschaft];
Ross, Karen E.
[Sonstige Person, Familie und Körperschaft]National Bureau of Economic Research
Does Marijuana Use Impair Human Capital Formation?
Erschienen:
Cambridge, Mass: National Bureau of Economic Research, September 2003
Erschienen in:NBER working paper series ; no. w9963
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Englisch
DOI:
10.3386/w9963
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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