Road to perdition? The effect of illicit drug use on labour market outcomes of prime-age men in Mexico
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| author | Antón, José-Ignacio Ponce, Juan de Bustillo, Rafael Muñoz |
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| contents | This study addresses the impact of illicit drug use on the labour market outcomes of men in Mexico. We leverage statistical information from three waves of a comparable national survey and make use of Lewbel's heteroskedasticity-based instrumental variable strategy to deal with the endogeneity of drug consumption. Our results suggests that drug consumption has quite negative effects in the Mexican context: It reduces employment, occupational attainment and formality and raises unemployment of local men. These effects seem larger than those estimated for high-income economies |
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| spellingShingle | Road to perdition? The effect of illicit drug use on labour market outcomes of prime-age men in Mexico Antón, José-Ignacio Ponce, Juan de Bustillo, Rafael Muñoz General Economics Economics This study addresses the impact of illicit drug use on the labour market outcomes of men in Mexico. We leverage statistical information from three waves of a comparable national survey and make use of Lewbel's heteroskedasticity-based instrumental variable strategy to deal with the endogeneity of drug consumption. Our results suggests that drug consumption has quite negative effects in the Mexican context: It reduces employment, occupational attainment and formality and raises unemployment of local men. These effects seem larger than those estimated for high-income economies |
| title | Road to perdition? The effect of illicit drug use on labour market outcomes of prime-age men in Mexico |
| topic | General Economics Economics |
| url | https://arxiv.org/abs/2405.10884 |