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‘High’ achievers? Cannabis access and academic performance

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2017
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Marie, O., & Zölitz, U. (2017). ‘High’ achievers? Cannabis access and academic performance. Review of Economic Studies, 48(3), 1210–1237. https://doi.org/10.1093/restud/rdx020

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This paper investigates how legal cannabis access affects student performance. Identification comes from an exceptional policy introduced in the city of Maastricht in the Netherlands that discriminated access via licensed cannabis shops based on an individual’s nationality. We apply a difference-in-difference approach using administrative panel data on course grades of local students enrolled at Maastricht University before and during the partial cannabis prohibition. We find that the academic performance of students who are no longer

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48

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3

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1210

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1237

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Journal Article

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Keywords

Marijuana, legalization, student performance

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Discipline-based scholarship (basic research)

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English

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2017

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2018-02-09

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0034-6527

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Green

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merlin-id:16007

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19 since deposited on 2018-02-09
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Marie, O., & Zölitz, U. (2017). ‘High’ achievers? Cannabis access and academic performance. Review of Economic Studies, 48(3), 1210–1237. https://doi.org/10.1093/restud/rdx020

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