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Author: Baggio, Michele
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Baggio, Michele Chong, Alberto Simon, David |
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Sex, Drugs, and Baby Booms: Can Behavior Overcome Biology? NBER Working Paper No. 25208, National Bureau of Economic Research, November 2018. Also: https://www.nber.org/papers/w25208 Cohort(s): NLSY97 Publisher: National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) Keyword(s): Contraception; Drug Use; Fertility; Geocoded Data; Sexual Activity; State-Level Data/Policy We study the behavioral changes due to marijuana consumption on fertility and its key mechanisms, as opposed to physiological changes. We can employ several large proprietary data sets, including the 1997 National Longitudinal Survey of Youth, Nielsen Retail Scanner database, as well as the Vital Statistics Natality files and apply a differences-in-differences approach by exploiting the timing of the introduction of medical marijuana laws among states. We first replicate the earlier literature by showing that marijuana use increases after the passage of medical marijuana laws. Our novel results reveal that birth rates increased after the passage of a law corresponding to increased frequency of sexual intercourse, decreased purchase of condoms and suggestive evidence on decreased condom use during sex. More sex and less contraceptive use may be attributed to behavioral responses such as increased attention to the immediate hedonic effects of sexual contact, delayed discounting and ignoring costs associated with risky sex. These findings are consistent with a large observational literature linking marijuana use with increased sexual activity and multiple partners. Our findings are robust to a broad set of tests. |
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Bibliography Citation
Baggio, Michele, Alberto Chong and David Simon. "Sex, Drugs, and Baby Booms: Can Behavior Overcome Biology?" NBER Working Paper No. 25208, National Bureau of Economic Research, November 2018. |
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Baggio, Michele Chong, Alberto Simon, David |
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Sex, Marijuana and Baby Booms Journal of Health Economics 70 (March 2020): 102283. Also: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0167629619301882 Cohort(s): NLSY97 Publisher: Elsevier Keyword(s): Birth Rate; Contraception; Drug Use; Geocoded Data; Natality Detail Files; Sexual Activity; State-Level Data/Policy We study the behavioral changes caused by marijuana use on sexual activity, contraception, and birth counts by applying a differences-in-differences approach that exploits the variation in timing of the introduction of medical marijuana laws (MMLs) among states. We find that MMLs cause an increase in sexual activity, a reduction in contraceptive use conditional on having sex, and an increase in number of births. There is also suggestive evidence on temporary increases in the state-year gonorrhea rate. These changes may be attributed to behavioral responses including increased attention to the immediate hedonic effects of sexual contact, increased sexual frequency, as well as delayed discounting and ignoring the future costs associated with sex. Our findings on births suggest that behavioral factors can counteract the physiological changes from marijuana use that tend to decrease fertility. Our findings are robust to a broad set of tests. |
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Bibliography Citation
Baggio, Michele, Alberto Chong and David Simon. "Sex, Marijuana and Baby Booms." Journal of Health Economics 70 (March 2020): 102283.
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