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Why Parents Worry: Initiation into Cannabis Use by Youth and their Educational Attainment

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Jan C. van Ours
Jenny Williams

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In this paper we use individual level data from the Australian National Drug Strategy Household Survey to study the relationship between initiation into cannabis use and educational attainment. Using instrumental variable estimation and bivariate duration analysis we find that those initiating into cannabis use early in life are much more likely to dropout of school compared to those who start later on. Moreover, we find that the reduction in years of schooling depends on the age at which initiation occurs, and that it is larger for females than males.

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Paper provided by The University of Melbourne in its series Department of Economics - Working Papers Series with number 1013.

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Date of creation: 2007
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Keywords: cannabis use age of initiation educational attainment

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C41 - Mathematical and Quantitative Methods - - Econometric and Statistical Methods: Special Topics - - - Duration Analysis
D12 - Microeconomics - - Household Behavior - - - Consumer Economics: Empirical Analysis
I19 - Health, Education, and Welfare - - Health - - - Other

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