Decriminalization and marijuana smoking prevalence: Evidence from australia

Journal of Business and Economic Statistics

Volumn 28, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 344-356

  Damrongplasit, Kannika ^a,b,c   Hsiao, Cheng ^d,e,f   Zhao, Xueyan ^g  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b RAND CORPORATION   (United States)

^c NANYANG TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY   (Singapore)

^d UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^e CITY UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

^f XIAMEN UNIVERSITY   (China)

^g MONASH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Average treatment effect; Bootstrapping; Endogenous probit switching; Illicit drugs; Parametric and nonparametric specification analysis; Propensity score matching

Indexed keywords

EID: 77958575259     PISSN: 07350015     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1198/jbes.2009.06129     Document Type: Article

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