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来源类型 | Working Paper |
规范类型 | 报告 |
DOI | 10.3386/w25208 |
来源ID | Working Paper 25208 |
Sex, Drugs, and Baby Booms: Can Behavior Overcome Biology? | |
Michele Baggio; Alberto Chong; David Simon | |
发表日期 | 2018-11-05 |
出版年 | 2018 |
语种 | 英语 |
摘要 | 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. |
主题 | Microeconomics ; Behavioral Economics ; Health, Education, and Welfare ; Health ; Labor Economics ; Demography and Aging ; Other ; Law and Economics |
URL | https://www.nber.org/papers/w25208 |
来源智库 | National Bureau of Economic Research (United States) |
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资源类型 | 智库出版物 |
条目标识符 | http://119.78.100.153/handle/2XGU8XDN/582882 |
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714 | Michele Baggio,Alberto Chong,David Simon. Sex, Drugs, and Baby Booms: Can Behavior Overcome Biology?. 2018. |
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