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Title: The Impact of Alcohol Consumption and Marijuana Use on High School Graduation
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Yamada, Tetsuji Kendix, Michael Yamada, Tadashi |
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The Impact of Alcohol Consumption and Marijuana Use on High School Graduation NBER Working Paper No. 4497, National Bureau of Economic Research, October 1994. Also: http://nber.nber.org/papers/W4497 Cohort(s): NLSY79 Publisher: National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) Keyword(s): Alcohol Use; Drug Use; High School Completion/Graduates; High School Dropouts; Substance Use According to a report published by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, about 90 percent of high school seniors in 1990 had consumed alcohol within the past two weeks. Nearly one-third of the survey group had consumed five or more drinks in a row. The same report indicated that about three million youths aged 10 to 17 experienced multiple problems resulting from alcohol and drug abuse. Now an NBER study by the authors shows that alcohol and marijuana use have significant adverse effects on high school graduation. They find that frequent drinking, liquor and wine consumption, and frequent marijuana use reduce the probability of high school graduation by 4.3, 0.3, and 5.6 percent, respectively. |
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Yamada, Tetsuji, Michael Kendix and Tadashi Yamada. "The Impact of Alcohol Consumption and Marijuana Use on High School Graduation." NBER Working Paper No. 4497, National Bureau of Economic Research, October 1994. |