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Does Marijuana Use Impair Human Capital Formation? / Rosalie Liccardo Pacula, Karen E. Ross, Jeanne Ringel.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Pacula, Rosalie Liccardo.
- Series:
- Working Paper Series (National Bureau of Economic Research) no. w9963.
- NBER working paper series no. w9963
- Language:
- English
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource: illustrations (black and white);
- Place of Publication:
- Cambridge, Mass. National Bureau of Economic Research 2003.
- Summary:
- 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.
- Notes:
- Print version record
- September 2003.
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