The Impact of Maternal Alcohol and Illicit Drug Use on Children's Behavior Problems: Evidence from the Children of the National Longitudinal Survey...
Year: 2000
Type: report
Abstract: This study uses data from the Children of the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth to test for evidence of a causal relationship between maternal alcohol use, marijuana use and cocaine use, and children's behavior problems.Ordinary least squares results provide strong evidence that maternal substance use is associated with children's behavior problems.Models that account for the potential endogeneity of maternal substance use yield mixed results.Models estimated using instrumental variables (IV) methods are inconsistent with OLS findings.Child-specific and familyspecific fixed effects models, however, suggest that maternal alcohol, marijuana and cocaine use are associated with increases in behavior problems.
DOI: 10.3386/w7692
Authors: Pinka Chatterji, Sara Markowitz
Language: English
Field: Medicine
Domain: Health Sciences
Open Access status: green
OpenAlex ID: W1964244623