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| Title: | | West-East Convergence in the Prevalence of Cannabis Use: Socioeconomics or Culture?  |
| Authors: | | Tauchmann, Harald |
| Issue Date: | | 2008 |
| Citation: | | [Journal:] Economics: The Open-Access, Open-Assessment E-Journal [Volume:] 2 [Issue:] 2008-29 [Pages:] 1-27 [DOI/URN:] doi:10.5018/economics-ejournal.ja.2008-29 |
| Series/Report no.: | | economics - The Open-Access, Open-Assessment E-Journal 2008-29 |
| Abstract: | | In contrast to West Germany, illicit drugs were virtually absent in East Germany until 1990. However, after the collapse of the former GDR, East Germany was expected to encounter a sharp increase in substance abuse. By analyzing individual data, we find that East Germany largely caught up with West Germany's ever-growing prevalence of cannabis use within a single decade. We decompose the westeast difference in prevalence rates into an explained and an unexplained part using a modified Blinder-Oaxaca procedure. This decomposition suggests that the observed convergence is only weakly related to socioeconomic characteristics and therefore remains mainly unexplained. That is, West and East Germans seem to have become more alike per se. We conclude that both parts of the country have converged in terms of the culture of cannabis consumption. |
| Subjects: | | Cannabis consumption west-east convergence decompos |
| JEL: | | I12 P36 P23 |
| Persistent Identifier of the first edition: | | doi:10.5018/economics-ejournal.ja.2008-29 |
| URL of the first edition: | | http://www.economics-ejournal.org/economics/journalarticles/2008-29 |
| Creative Commons License: | |  |
| Document Type: | | Article |
| Appears in Collections: | | Economics: The Open-Access, Open-Assessment E-Journal - Journal Articles
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