TY  - JOUR
AU  - Pacula,Rosalie Liccardo
AU  - Ross,Karen E.
AU  - Ringel,Jeanne
TI  - Does Marijuana Use Impair Human Capital Formation?
JF  - National Bureau of Economic Research Working Paper Series
VL  - No. 9963
PY  - 2003
Y2  - September 2003
UR  - http://www.nber.org/papers/w9963
L1  - http://www.nber.org/papers/w9963.pdf
N1  - Author contact info:
Rosalie Liccardo Pacula
RAND Corporation
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P.O. Box 2138
Santa Monica, CA 90407-2138
Tel: 310/393-0411 ext. 6494
Fax: 858/350-8798
E-Mail: pacula@rand.org

karen_ross

Jeanne Ringel
E-Mail: ringel@rand.org
AB  - In this paper we examine the relationship between marijuana use and human capital formation by examining performance on standardized tests among a nationally representative sample of youths from the National Education Longitudinal Survey. We find that much of the negative association between cross-sectional measures of marijuana use and cognitive ability appears to be attenuated by individual differences in school attachment and general deviance. However, difference-in-difference estimates examining changes in test scores across 10th and 12th grade reveal that marijuana use remains statistically associated with a 15% reduction in performance on standardized math tests.
ER  -