Participation in marijuana, cocaine and heroin consumption in Australia: A multivariate probit approach

Applied Economics

Volumn 41, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 481-496

  Ramful, Preety ^a   Zhao, Xueyan ^a  

^a MONASH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CONSUMPTION BEHAVIOR; DECISION ANALYSIS; DRUG; EMPIRICAL ANALYSIS; ERROR ANALYSIS; ESTIMATION METHOD; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; NUMERICAL MODEL; PROBABILITY;

AUSTRALASIA; AUSTRALIA;

CANNABIS SATIVA;

EID: 60349111694     PISSN: 00036846     EISSN: 14664283     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00036840701522853     Document Type: Article

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