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Alcohol and Marijuana Use Among College Students: Economic Complements or Substitutes?

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Jenny Williams
Rosalie Liccardo Pacula
Frank J. Chaloupka
Henry Wechsler

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College campuses have been cracking down on underage and binge drinking in light of recent highly publicized student deaths. Although there is evidence showing that stricter college alcohol policies have been effective at discouraging both drinking in general and frequent binge drinking on college campuses, recent evidence from the Harvard School Of Public Health College Alcohol Study (CAS) shows that marijuana use among college students rose 22 percent between 1993 and 1999. Are current policies aimed at reducing alcohol consumption 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 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.

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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!]
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  4. Requate, Till & Göhlmann, Silja & Tauchmann, Harald & 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)
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  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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