TY  - JOUR
PY  - 2018//
TI  - Investigating the effects of medical marijuana laws on educational attainment
JO  - Economics letters
A1  - Li, Yajuan
A1  - Palma, Marco A.
SP  - 43
EP  - 45
VL  - 164
IS  - 
N2  - 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.<p />  <p>Language: en</p>
LA  - en
SN  - 0165-1765
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.econlet.2017.12.035
ID  - ref1
ER  -