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Alcohol and marijuana use among college students: economic complements or substitutes?

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J. Williams (University of Melbourne, Australia)
Rosalie Liccardo Pacula (The RAND Corporation, National Bureau of Economic Research, USA)
Frank J. Chaloupka (University of Illinois, Chicago, National Bureau of Economic Research, USA)
Henry Wechsler (Harvard School of Public Health, USA)

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Previous research has shown that the recent tightening of college alcohol policies has been effective at reducing college students' drinking. Over the period in which these stricter alcohol policies have been put in place, marijuana use among college students has increased. This raises the question of whether current policies aimed at reducing alcohol consumption are inadvertently encouraging marijuana use. This paper begins to address this question by investigating the relationship between the demands for alcohol and marijuana for college students using data from the 1993, 1997 and 1999 waves of the Harvard School of Public Health's College Alcohol Study (CAS). We find that alcohol and marijuana are economic complements and that policies that increase the full price of alcohol decrease participation in marijuana use. Copyright © 2004 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

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Article provided by John Wiley & Sons, Ltd. in its journal Health Economics.

Volume (Year): 13 (2004)
Issue (Month): 9 ()
Pages: 825-843
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  1. Cameron, L. & Williams, J., 1999. "Substitutes or Complements? Alcohol, Cannabis and Tobacco," Department of Economics - Working Papers Series 685, The University of Melbourne.
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  2. Michael Grossman & Frank J. Chaloupka & Henry Saffer & Adit Laixuthai, 1994. "Effects of Alcohol Price Policy on Youth," NBER Working Papers 4385, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc. [Downloadable!] (restricted)
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  1. Ours, Jan C. van, 2005. "Cannabis use when it's legal," Discussion Paper 12, Tilburg University, Center for Economic Research. [Downloadable!]
  2. Rosalie Liccardo Pacula & Jamie F. Chriqui & Joanna King, 2003. "Marijuana Decriminalization: What does it mean in the United States?," NBER Working Papers 9690, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc. [Downloadable!] (restricted)
  3. Ours, Jan C. van & Williams, Jenny, 2005. "Cannabis proces and dynamics of cannabis use," Discussion Paper 52, Tilburg University, Center for Economic Research. [Downloadable!]
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  4. Tauchmann, Harald & Göhlmann, Silja & Requate, Till & Schmidt, Christoph M., 2006. "Tobacco and alcohol: complements or substitutes? : a statistical Guinea Pig approach," Economics working papers 2006,18, Christian-Albrechts-University of Kiel, Department of Economics. [Downloadable!]
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  5. Tauchmann, Harald & Göhlmann, Silja & Requate, Till & Schmidt, Christoph M., 2008. "Tobacco and Alcohol: Complements or Substitutes? A Structural Model Approach," IZA Discussion Papers 3412, Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA). [Downloadable!]
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  6. David A. Hennessy, 2008. "Prevention and cure efforts both substitute and complement," Health Economics, John Wiley & Sons, Ltd., vol. 17(4), pages 503-511. [Downloadable!]
  7. Jeffrey S. DeSimone, 2006. "Fraternity Membership and Binge Drinking," NBER Working Papers 12468, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc. [Downloadable!] (restricted)
  8. Rosalie Liccardo Pacula & Beau Kilmer & Michael Grossman & Frank J. Chaloupka, 2007. "Risks and Prices: The Role of User Sanctions in Marijuana Markets," NBER Working Papers 13415, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc. [Downloadable!] (restricted)
  9. Sara Markowitz & John Tauras, 2006. "Even For Teenagers, Money Does Not Grow on Trees: Teenage Substance Use and Budget Constraints," NBER Working Papers 12300, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc. [Downloadable!] (restricted)
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