Table 5.
Effects of Heavy Adolescent Marijuana Use on Middle Adulthood Outcomes After Constrained Full Matching
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| Marginal effect | 95% CI | p | Marginal effect | 95% CI | p | |
| Educational attainment | −0.446 | −0.763, −0.129 | .006 | −0.589 | −0.941, −0.238 | .001 |
| Being currently employed | 0.097 | −0.025, 0.219 | .120 | −0.059 | −0.205, 0.087 | .431 |
| Unemployment bout in past 10 years | −0.050 | −0.190, 0.090 | .483 | 0.204 | 0.058, 0.350 | .006 |
| Household income | −0.293 | −1.571, 0.985 | .653 | −1.929 | −3.348, −0.509 | .008 |
| Poverty status | −0.020 | −0.138, 0.098 | .741 | 0.220 | 0.053, 0.387 | .010 |
| Marijuana use in past 10 years | 0.122 | −0.014, 0.259 | .080 | 0.317 | 0.158, 0.476 | ≤.001 |
| Cocaine use in past 10 years | 0.238 | 0.115, 0.361 | <.001 | 0.128 | −0.003, 0.259 | .055 |
| Heroin use in past 10 years | 0.073 | 0.004, 0.141 | .039a | 0.017 | −0.023, 0.057 | .395 |
| Drug abuse | 0.125 | 0.020, 0.229 | .020 | 0.091 | −0.010, 0.193 | .078 |
Note. All analyses match on and adjust for all matching variables. CI = confidence interval.
a
Teacher rating of shyness was dropped from the predictors because it perfectly predicted heroin use for female participants (i.e., no heroin users were rated as shy).