Search Results
Title: Illegal Drug Use and Employment
Resulting in 1 citation.
| 1. |
Desimone, Jeffrey Scott |
|
Illegal Drug Use and Employment Journal of Labor Economics 20,4 (October 2002): 952-977. Also: http://www.jstor.org/stable/10.1086/342893 Cohort(s): NLSY79 Publisher: University of Chicago Press Keyword(s): Drug Use; Employment; Male Sample; Modeling, Probit; Simultaneity; Unemployment This article investigates the relationship between employment and the use of marijuana and cocaine for males in National Longitudinal Survey of Youth data from 1984 and 1988. Previous studies yielding mixed evidence may have inadequately accounted for the simultaneity between drug consumption and employment. I implement an instrumental variable procedure that identifies drug use with variables that are empirically unrelated to employment, including the regional cocaine price and a state marijuana decriminalization indicator. Results indicate that the use of each drug substantially reduces the likelihood of employment. Exogeneity tests reveal that standard probit estimates are severely biased toward zero. |
|
|
Bibliography Citation
Desimone, Jeffrey Scott. "Illegal Drug Use and Employment." Journal of Labor Economics 20,4 (October 2002): 952-977.
|