caa a22 4500 467910103 CHVBK 20180406152847.0 cr unu---uuuuu 170328e20061201xx s 000 0 eng 10.1007/s10645-006-9028-8 doi (NATIONALLICENCE)springer-10.1007/s10645-006-9028-8 The Impact of Cannabis Use on Health [Elektronische Daten] [Jenny Williams, Christopher Skeels] Summary: Chronic daily cannabis use has been shown to have long term harmful health effects, which in turn is expected to reduce labour market productivity. The evidence is less clear on the health impact of less frequent consumption, which is the more typical mode of use, and previous empirical studies fail to find robust evidence of an adverse impact of these modes of use on labour market productivity. This paper attempts to shed some light on this issue by directly estimating the impact of cannabis consumption in the past week and past year on health status using information on prime age individuals living in Australia. We find that cannabis use does reduce self-assessed health status, with the effect of weekly use being of a similar magnitude as smoking cigarettes daily. Moreover, we find evidence of a dose-response relationship in the health impact of cannabis use, with annual use having roughly half the impact of weekly use. Springer Science+Business Media, LLC, 2006 cannabis nationallicence cigarettes nationallicence productivity nationallicence self-assessed health nationallicence Williams Jenny Department of Economics, The University of Melbourne, 3010, Parkville, Vic., Australia aut Skeels Christopher Department of Economics, The University of Melbourne, 3010, Parkville, Vic., Australia aut De Economist Kluwer Academic Publishers-Plenum Publishers; http://www.springer-ny.com 154/4(2006-12-01), 517-546 0013-063X 154:4<517 2006 154 10645 https://doi.org/10.1007/s10645-006-9028-8 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1007/s10645-006-9028-8 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Williams Jenny Department of Economics, The University of Melbourne, 3010, Parkville, Vic., Australia aut NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Skeels Christopher Department of Economics, The University of Melbourne, 3010, Parkville, Vic., Australia aut NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- De Economist Kluwer Academic Publishers-Plenum Publishers; http://www.springer-ny.com 154/4(2006-12-01), 517-546 0013-063X 154:4<517 2006 154 10645 Metadata rights reserved Springer special CC-BY-NC licence nationallicence BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-springer