Parental education, child's grade repetition and the modifier effect of cannabis use
Previous research on the relationship among family socio-economic status (SES), cannabis use and educational attainment has concentrated on finding a causal pathway from SES and illicit drug use to educational achievement. However, the association between family background and a child's cannabis use is weak. When analysing both family SES and education as determinants of a child's educational attainment, cannabis use should be treated as an effect modifier rather than a confounder. This article examines how cannabis use alters the protective effect of better family education on a child's school performance. By means of a retrospective cohort study using data from the Spanish National Survey on Drug Use in Secondary Education, this study illustrates that, as expected, children of better-educated parents are less likely to repeat a grade, although the positive impact of higher family education vanishes when students use cannabis.
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2015
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Authors: | Rungo, Paolo ; Casal, Bruno ; Rivera, Berta ; Currais, Luis |
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Applied Economics Letters. - Taylor & Francis Journals, ISSN 1350-4851. - Vol. 22.2015, 3, p. 199-203
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Taylor & Francis Journals |
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