Medical marijuana legalization and parenting behaviors: An analysis of the time use of parents-Reference-Cited by-同舟云学术

Medical marijuana legalization and parenting behaviors: An analysis of the time use of parents

Published:2024-07-14 Issue: Volume: Page:
ISSN:0883-7252
Container-title:Journal of Applied Econometrics
language:en
Short-container-title:J of Applied Econometrics

Author:

Bansak Cynthia¹²³,Kim Jun Hyung²³⁴

Affiliation:

1. Economics Department St. Lawrence University Canton New York USA

2. Institute of Labor Economics Bonn Germany

3. Global Labor Organization Essen Germany

4. School of Digital Humanities and Computational Social Sciences Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology Daejeon South Korea

Abstract

SummaryCan access to medical marijuana improve parenting? We examine the consequences of state‐level medical marijuana legalization (MML) on parents' time use. Medical marijuana may increase parenting time by improving parents' health but only if parents do not abuse marijuana. We find that MML increases parenting time, with bigger impacts for those less likely to abuse marijuana. The effects correspond to 12.56% of the gap in active childcare and 8.92% of the gap in passive childcare by parents' education level. MML also reduces inactive time and increases sleep, consistent with medical marijuana's health benefits.

Publisher

Wiley

Link

https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdf/10.1002/jae.3084

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