TY  - JOUR
AU  - Kaestner, Robert
TI  - Does Drug Use Cause Poverty?
JF  - National Bureau of Economic Research Working Paper Series
VL  - No. 6406
PY  - 1998
Y2  - February 1998
DO  - 10.3386/w6406
UR  - http://www.nber.org/papers/w6406
L1  - http://www.nber.org/papers/w6406.pdf
N1  - Author contact info:
Robert Kaestner
Harris School of Public Policy
University of Chicago
1307 East 60th Street (Room 3057)
Chicago, IL 60637
E-Mail: kaestner@uchicago.edu
M1  - published as Robert Kaestner. "Does Drug Use Cause Poverty?," in Frank J. Chaloupka, Michael Grossman, Warren K. Bickel and Henry Saffer, editors, "The Economic Analysis of Substance Use and Abuse: An Integration of Econometric and Behavioral Economic Research" University of Chicago Press (1999)

AB  - In this study, I examine the effect of drug use on poverty. The main objective of the paper is to provide descriptive empirical information about the relationship between drug use and poverty, and to explore, in a preliminary fashion, the question of whether drug use causes poverty.  Toward this end, I present the results of both descriptive and multivariate analyses of the relationship between drug use and poverty for two national samples of young adults.  One sample is drawn from the National Household Survey of Drug Abuse (NHSDA), and the other from the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth (NLSY).  The results of the analysis indicate that for both samples, drug use is associated with greater poverty.
ER  -