Investigating the effects of medical marijuana laws on educational attainment

Yajuan Li and Marco A. Palma

Economics Letters, 2018, vol. 164, issue C, 43-45

Abstract: From 1996 to 2013, a total of 19 states and Washington, D.C. adopted medical marijuana laws (MML). Early adolescent marijuana use correlates with several problems later in life, including job-related skill acquisition, illegal substance abuse, and educational attainment. This paper examines the negative externalities of MML on educational attainment by applying a difference-in-differences research design. The results show that MML decrease high school graduation rates by 0.36 percentage points, indicating that nearly 13,000 students will not graduate as a result of the MML implementation.

Keywords: High school graduation; MML adoption; Spillover effects (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: I12 I18 I23 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2018
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DOI: 10.1016/j.econlet.2017.12.035

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