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The impact of cannabis use on short-term educational outcomes

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  • Lionel Perini
  • Joachim Marti

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In this paper we use longitudinal data on Swiss adolescents to investigate the impact of cannabis use on short-term educational performance. We focus our analysis on high school students and analyze various outcomes, including absenteeism, grades, and motivation. We exploit the panel nature of the data and control for a rich set of individual and family characteristics measured at the end of compulsory school. Results from both fixed effects regressions and propensity score matching indicate that high school students who smoke cannabis skip on additional half day of school per month and are 15-20% more likely to obtain poor grades. In addition, our empirical approaches highlight the importance of taking unobserved heterogeneity into account when assessing the impact of substance use on education.

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  • Lionel Perini & Joachim Marti, 2013. "The impact of cannabis use on short-term educational outcomes," IRENE Working Papers 13-03, IRENE Institute of Economic Research.
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    Keywords

    cannabis; education; adolescents; human capital; propensity score matching;
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    JEL classification:

    • I12 - Health, Education, and Welfare - - Health - - - Health Behavior
    • I18 - Health, Education, and Welfare - - Health - - - Government Policy; Regulation; Public Health
    • I21 - Health, Education, and Welfare - - Education - - - Analysis of Education
    • C23 - Mathematical and Quantitative Methods - - Single Equation Models; Single Variables - - - Models with Panel Data; Spatio-temporal Models

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