COEP Replication Package for "Higher education: The impact of recreational marijuana on college applications"

Principal Investigator(s): View help for Principal Investigator(s) Christopher Blake, Emory University, Oxford College

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Project Citation:

Blake, Christopher. COEP Replication Package for “Higher education: The impact of recreational marijuana on college applications.” Ann Arbor, MI: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [distributor], 2023-11-01. https://doi.org/10.3886/E194847V1

Project Description

Summary: Using a two-way fixed effects difference-in-differences model, we investigate the effects of local recreational marijuana (RMJ) policy changes on college applications and find that the three largest state public schools reaped, on average, an almost 54% increase in applications. This increase does not appear to come solely from low-ability students as both first and third quartiles of admitted student composite SAT scores to the largest three public schools do not decrease. Rather, they both increase by almost 3.8% though these estimates are not statistically significant. Robust difference-in-difference and event study models support the signs and magnitudes of these gains and show they diminish over time.

Funding Sources: University of South Carolina Darla Moore School of Business

Scope of Project

Subject Terms: Recreational Marijuana; College Applications; Difference-in-Difference

JEL Classification:
      I18 Health: Government Policy; Regulation; Public Health
      I23 Higher Education; Research Institutions
      J18 Demographic Economics: Public Policy

Manuscript Number: COEP-Jul-2022-00088.R2

Geographic Coverage: United States

Time Period(s): 1/1/2008 – 12/31/2019

Methodology

Data Source: IPEDS
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Unit(s) of Observation: Colleges

Geographic Unit: U.S. States

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