We study the impact of early cannabis use on the school to work transition of young men. Our empirical approach … accounts for common unobserved confounders that jointly affect selection into cannabis use and the transition from school to … competing risk. We find that early cannabis use leads young men to accept job offers more quickly and at a lower wage rate …

Social interactions are generally thought to play an important role in smoking initiation among adolescents. In this … endogenous peer effect. We show that peer effects in the uptake of smoking are predominantly affecting individuals who are …

Our paper investigates the effect of tobacco control policies on smoking initiation in eleven European countries. We … analyze longitudinal data of individuals by using information about their age of onset of smoking. We apply hazard rate models … to study smoking initiation. Thus, we are able to take into account observed and unobserved personal characteristics as …

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 … grades of local students enrolled at Maastricht University before and during the partial cannabis prohibition. We find that …