TY - JOUR
T1 - Recreational Marijuana Laws and Junk Food Consumption: Evidence Using Border Analysis and Retail Sales Data
AU - Baggio, Michele
AU - Chong, Alberto
PY - 2019/2/20
Y1 - 2019/2/20
N2 - We use retail scanner data on purchases of high calorie food to study the link between recreational marijuana laws (RMLs) and consumption of high calorie food. To do this we exploit differences in the timing of introduction of marijuana laws among states and find that they are complements. Specifically, in counties located in RML states monthly sales of high calorie food increased by 3.1 percent for ice cream, 4.1 for cookies, and 5.3 percent for chips.
AB - We use retail scanner data on purchases of high calorie food to study the link between recreational marijuana laws (RMLs) and consumption of high calorie food. To do this we exploit differences in the timing of introduction of marijuana laws among states and find that they are complements. Specifically, in counties located in RML states monthly sales of high calorie food increased by 3.1 percent for ice cream, 4.1 for cookies, and 5.3 percent for chips.
UR - https://www.mendeley.com/catalogue/b839dfca-422b-3668-8ff8-cf19abd4ad12/
U2 - 10.2139/ssrn.3328613
DO - 10.2139/ssrn.3328613
M3 - Artículo de revista
JO - SSRN Electronic Journal
JF - SSRN Electronic Journal
ER -