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The research topic for this semester is to examine how substance abuse, particularly alcohol and marijuana use, affect high school student outcomes. The data will be drawn from the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth (NLSY) 1997 cohort. Must use Stata. 7-10 pages.
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Running head: ESTIMATION OF EFFECTS OF SUBSTANCE USE
Estimation of the Effect of Substance Use on High School Academic Performance
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December 2018
ESTIMATION OF EFFECTS OF SUBSTANCE USE
Abstract
In this paper, I will examine the relationship between substance use, specifically alcohol
and marijuana use and high school academic performance by examining performance on GPA,
failure, and dropout among a representative sample of youths from the National Education
Longitudinal Survey. I pooled a simple OLS bivariate regression and applied FE estimator and
2SLS to refine it.
Keywords: substance use, high school academic performance, school dropout
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Estimation of the Effect of Substance Use on High School Academic Performance
Introduction
The substance has been playing a part in human society throughout history. Some believe
a small amount of use will not cause any harmful effects, on the opposite, will create happiness
and relief. What is more, as a matter of fact, the society now does not punish tobacco using at all,
sometimes even views alcohol a poetic thing. However, to be objective about it, substance using
is harmful in several ways such as easily becoming addictive, impeding brain development,
causing emotional instability, losing accurate judgments, leading to violence, diminishing
productivity and so on. As social capital, adolescents consume substance as well, some are even
affected by substance abuse, and this causes serious social concerns.
The consumption of an addictive substance, such as alcohol, tobacco, and marijuana
often experiments during high school, and researchers have always wanted to find out the
relationship between substance use and high school performance. Considerable research has
demonstrated a negative association between marijuana and alcohol use and educational
attainment. While most scholars think substance use itself causes a decline in school
performance, some indicate in the paper that initiation time may influence how bad the effects
are, some think frequency matters, some believes substance using decreases school attendance
and therefore affects school performance, and some proved by data that amount is the key of
influence. There are also researches on how stop using substance can influence academic
performance.
The article “Does alcohol use during high school affects educational attainment?:
Evidence from the National Education Longitudinal Study” is one of the best examples that seek
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to estimate the association between high school alcohol use and educational attainment, this
article measures explicitly the effect around age 26. Chatterji be...