Cannabis Use and Mental Health Problems

Jan C. van Ours and Jenny Williams

No 7384, CEPR Discussion Papers from Centre for Economic Policy Research

Abstract: This paper investigates whether cannabis use leads to worse mental health. To do so, we account for common unobserved factors affecting mental health and cannabis consumption by modeling mental health jointly with the dynamics of cannabis use. Our main finding is that using cannabis increases the likelihood of mental health problems, with current use having a larger effect than past use. The estimates suggest a dose response relationship between the frequency of recent cannabis use and the probability of currently experiencing a mental health problem.

Keywords: Cannabis use; Discrete factor models; Duration models; Mental health (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: C41 D12 I19 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2009-07
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