Early health-related behaviours and their impact on later life chances: evidence from the US

Illicit drug use and labour market achievement: evidence from the UK

“…Tables IIIa-d give the estimated coe¢cients separately for class A and B/C drugs, using both the unrestricted model (10)- (15) and the restricted model with P 00 forced to be equal to 1. 2 Unlike some recent studies (Ramsay and Percy 1996, Ramsay and Spiller 1997) we have not included alcohol abuse in the current drug use model. This is simply because drug use and alcohol abuse are joint outcomes of a given lifestyle driven by some unobserved process.…”

Illicit drug use and labour market achievement: evidence from the UK

“…Tables IIIa-d give the estimated coe¢cients separately for class A and B/C drugs, using both the unrestricted model (10)- (15) and the restricted model with P 00 forced to be equal to 1. 2 Unlike some recent studies (Ramsay and Percy 1996, Ramsay and Spiller 1997) we have not included alcohol abuse in the current drug use model. This is simply because drug use and alcohol abuse are joint outcomes of a given lifestyle driven by some unobserved process.…”

Concurrent life-course trajectories of employment and marijuana-use: Exploring interdependence of longitudinal outcomes

“…The findings by Register & Williams (1992), who use the 1984 wave of the NLSY, concur in that general marijuana-use (e.g., long-term or on-the-job use) to have a positive effect on wages. These results, in conjunction with less extreme conclusions by Kaestner (1994a) and Burgess & Propper (1998), who conclude that illicit drug use does not have a significant adverse impact on employment, reveal how the widely accepted perceptions on the effect of illicit drug use on labor market outcomes is, in fact, far from conclusive.…”

The Causal Effect of Education on Wages Revisited

“…Further support for this contention comes from evidence in the literature that there are no harmful effects of early drug and alcohol use on later economic prospects. Burgess and Propper (1998) show this for adolescent men in the US whose economic outcomes 10 years later are unaffected by soft drug and alcohol use, while MacDonald and Pudney (2000) show similar results for young British men: there are no negative effects on employment or occupational attainment of teenage use of soft drugs. Taking all of this into consideration, there is no reason to think that smoking at 16 would affect current wage -and as individuals age and move further away from being 16 this is even more so the case.…”

Illicit drug use and labour market achievement: evidence from the UK

“…Tables IIIa-d give the estimated coe¢cients separately for class A and B/C drugs, using both the unrestricted model (10)- (15) and the restricted model with P 00 forced to be equal to 1. 2 Unlike some recent studies (Ramsay and Percy 1996, Ramsay and Spiller 1997) we have not included alcohol abuse in the current drug use model. This is simply because drug use and alcohol abuse are joint outcomes of a given lifestyle driven by some unobserved process.…”

Concurrent life-course trajectories of employment and marijuana-use: Exploring interdependence of longitudinal outcomes

“…The findings by Register & Williams (1992), who use the 1984 wave of the NLSY, concur in that general marijuana-use (e.g., long-term or on-the-job use) to have a positive effect on wages. These results, in conjunction with less extreme conclusions by Kaestner (1994a) and Burgess & Propper (1998), who conclude that illicit drug use does not have a significant adverse impact on employment, reveal how the widely accepted perceptions on the effect of illicit drug use on labor market outcomes is, in fact, far from conclusive.…”

The Causal Effect of Education on Wages Revisited

“…Further support for this contention comes from evidence in the literature that there are no harmful effects of early drug and alcohol use on later economic prospects. Burgess and Propper (1998) show this for adolescent men in the US whose economic outcomes 10 years later are unaffected by soft drug and alcohol use, while MacDonald and Pudney (2000) show similar results for young British men: there are no negative effects on employment or occupational attainment of teenage use of soft drugs. Taking all of this into consideration, there is no reason to think that smoking at 16 would affect current wage -and as individuals age and move further away from being 16 this is even more so the case.…”

Illicit drug use and labour market achievement: evidence from the UK

“…Tables IIIa-d give the estimated coe¢cients separately for class A and B/C drugs, using both the unrestricted model (10)- (15) and the restricted model with P 00 forced to be equal to 1. 2 Unlike some recent studies (Ramsay and Percy 1996, Ramsay and Spiller 1997) we have not included alcohol abuse in the current drug use model. This is simply because drug use and alcohol abuse are joint outcomes of a given lifestyle driven by some unobserved process.…”

Concurrent life-course trajectories of employment and marijuana-use: Exploring interdependence of longitudinal outcomes

“…The findings by Register & Williams (1992), who use the 1984 wave of the NLSY, concur in that general marijuana-use (e.g., long-term or on-the-job use) to have a positive effect on wages. These results, in conjunction with less extreme conclusions by Kaestner (1994a) and Burgess & Propper (1998), who conclude that illicit drug use does not have a significant adverse impact on employment, reveal how the widely accepted perceptions on the effect of illicit drug use on labor market outcomes is, in fact, far from conclusive.…”

The Causal Effect of Education on Wages Revisited

“…Further support for this contention comes from evidence in the literature that there are no harmful effects of early drug and alcohol use on later economic prospects. Burgess and Propper (1998) show this for adolescent men in the US whose economic outcomes 10 years later are unaffected by soft drug and alcohol use, while MacDonald and Pudney (2000) show similar results for young British men: there are no negative effects on employment or occupational attainment of teenage use of soft drugs. Taking all of this into consideration, there is no reason to think that smoking at 16 would affect current wage -and as individuals age and move further away from being 16 this is even more so the case.…”