Citation

van Ours JC, Williams J, Fergusson D, Horwood LJ. J. Health Econ. 2013; 32(3): 524-537.

Affiliation

Department of Economics, CentER, Tilburg University, The Netherlands; Department of Economics, University of Melbourne, Australia; CEPR, United Kingdom. Electronic address: vanours@uvt.nl.

Copyright

(Copyright © 2013, Elsevier Publishing)

DOI

10.1016/j.jhealeco.2013.02.002

PMID

23518573

Abstract

Globally, suicide has emerged as the second leading cause of death among youth aged 10-24 years old. In order to better understand the causes of this phenomenon, we investigate the relationship between suicidal ideation and cannabis use. Our empirical analysis is based on a 30-year longitudinal study of a birth cohort. We find that intensive cannabis use - at least several times per week - leads to a higher transition rate into suicidal ideation for males. We find no evidence that suicidal ideation leads to cannabis use for either males or females.

Language: en