Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/149518 
Year of Publication: 
2017
Series/Report no.: 
Tinbergen Institute Discussion Paper No. 17-004/V
Publisher: 
Tinbergen Institute, Amsterdam and Rotterdam
Abstract: 
We study the impact of early cannabis use on the school to work transition of young men. Our empirical approach accounts for common unobserved confounders that jointly affect selection into cannabis use and the transition from school to work using a multivariate mixed proportional hazard framework in which unobserved heterogeneities are drawn from a discrete mixing distribution. Extended models account for school leavers' option of returning to school rather than starting work as a competing risk. We find that early cannabis use leads young men to accept job offers more quickly and at a lower wage rate compared to otherwise similar males who did not use cannabis. These effects are present only for those who use cannabis for longer than a year before leaving school. Overall, our findings are consistent with a mechanism whereby early non-experimental cannabis use leads to greater impatience in initial labor market decision-making.
Subjects: 
multivariate duration models
discrete factors
cannabis use
job search
wages
JEL: 
C41
I12
J01
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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