Marijuana on Main Streets? The Story Continues in Colombia. An Endogenous Three-part Mode

dc.contributor.affiliationUniversidad EAFITspa
dc.contributor.authorRamírez Hassan, Andrés
dc.contributor.authorGómez Toro, Catalina
dc.contributor.authorVelásquez, Santiago
dc.contributor.authorTangarife Londoño, Katherin
dc.coverage.spatialMedellín de: Lat: 06 15 00 N degrees minutes Lat: 6.2500 decimal degrees Long: 075 36 00 W degrees minutes Long: -75.6000 decimal degreeseng
dc.date.accessioned2023-06-21T18:24:02Z
dc.date.available2023-06-21T18:24:02Z
dc.date.issued2023-06
dc.description.abstractCannabis is the most common illicit drug, and understanding its demand is relevant to analyze the potential implications of its legalization. This paper proposes an endogenous three-part model taking into account incidental truncation and access restrictions to study demand for marijuana in Colombia, and analyze the potential effects of its legalization. Our application suggests that modeling simultaneously access, intensive and extensive margin is relevant, and that selection into access is important for the intensive margin. We find that younger men that have consumed alcohol and cigarettes, living in a neighborhood with drug suppliers, and friends that consume marijuana face higher probability of having access and using this drug. In addition, we find that marijuana is an inelastic good (-0.45 elasticity). Our results are robust to different specifications and definitions. If marijuana were legalized, younger individuals with a medium or low risk perception about marijuana use would increase the probability of use in 3.8 percentage points, from 13.6% to 17.4%. Overall, legalization would increase the probability of consumption in 0.7 p.p. (2.3% to 3.0%). Different price settings suggest that annual tax revenues fluctuate between USD 11.0 million and USD 54.2 million, a potential benchmark is USD 32 million.eng
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10784/32612
dc.language.isoengeng
dc.publisherUniversidad EAFITspa
dc.publisher.departmentEscuela de Economía y Finanzasspa
dc.rights.accessrightsinfo:eu-repo/semantics/openAccesseng
dc.rights.localAcceso abiertospa
dc.subject.keywordMarijuana demandspa
dc.subject.keywordMarijuana legalizationspa
dc.subject.keywordThree-part modelspa
dc.subject.keywordTruncationspa
dc.titleMarijuana on Main Streets? The Story Continues in Colombia. An Endogenous Three-part Modeeng
dc.typeworkingPapereng
dc.typeinfo:eu-repo/semantics/workingPapereng
dc.type.hasVersiondrafteng
dc.type.localDocumento de trabajo de investigaciónspa

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