Youthful Substance Use and Educational Outcomes

青少年药物使用和教育成果

• 批准号: 6689021
• 负责人: PINKA CHATTERJI
• 金额: $ 4.94万
• 依托单位: CAMBRIDGE HEALTH ALLIANCE
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 财政年份: 2001
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2001-08-01 至 2006-07-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/6689021
• 关键词: academic achievement; adolescence (12-20); alcoholism /alcohol abuse; behavior disorders; behavioral /social science research tag; clinical research; elementary school; human data; outcomes research; secondary schools; substance abuse related disorder

Rates of alcohol and other drug use among American youth remain high, making adolescent substance use a pressing public health issue. This proposal addresses one important and poorly understood aspect of adolescent substance use the relationship between substance use and educational outcomes during youth. The objective of this Mentored Research Scientist Development Award proposal is to give Pinka Chatterji, Ph.D. the opportunity to conduct an integrated, five-year study of substance use and children's educational development. Under the sponsorship of Dr. Michael Grossman, Dr. Chatterji proposes to use several national data sets and econometric methods to estimate: (1) the relationship between reading and math achievement test scores, behavior problems, and poor grades in elementary and middle school, and the later initiation, frequency, and intensity of alcohol and other drug use; and (2) the impact of adolescent alcohol and other drug use on the quality and quantity of education completed. The economic approach used in the study focuses on testing for and addressing problems of endogeneity in the substance use and educational outcome measures. The study also links substance use and educational outcomes during youth to state-level policies that decision makers can control, such as state excise taxes on beer, marijuana decriminalization, teachers' salaries, and student/teacher ratios. The data sets used in the study are: (1) The National Longitudinal Survey of Youth, 1979; (2) Children of the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth; (3) The National Longitudinal Survey of Youth, 1997; and (4) The National Education Longitudinal Study, 1988-1996. Dr. Chatterji's long-term career goal as a substance use researcher is to combine her training as a health economist with a solid base in psychology and education research. To achieve this goal, she will work closely with Dr. Grossman and with a multidisciplinary group of co- mentors from Columbia University and her home department, the Department of Epidemiology and Social Medicine at Albert Einstein College of Medicine/Montefiore Medical Center. She also will devote the first two years of the award to coursework, supervised reading and seminars in developmental psychology, educational policy, primary data collection, general substance use issues, and research ethics. This background will give Dr. Chatterji the skills she needs to design novel, policy-relevant substance use research projects in the future as an independent investigator.

美国青年中的酒精和其他药物使用率仍然很高，这使得青少年物质使用紧迫的公共卫生问题。该提议涉及青少年物质使用的一个重要且知之甚少的方面，青年期间物质使用与教育结果之间的关系。这项指导的研究科学家发展奖的目标是向Pinka Chatterji博士授予博士学位。进行综合的五年研究和儿童教育发展研究的机会。在迈克尔·格罗斯曼（Michael Grossman）博士的赞助下，查特吉（Chatterji）博士建议使用几种国家数据集和计量经济学方法来估算：（1）阅读与数学成就测试分数，行为问题，小学和中学中的成绩不佳，以及后来的启动，后来的启动，频率，频率和其他药物和其他药物使用； （2）青少年酒精和其他药物使用对完成的教育质量和数量的影响。研究中使用的经济方法着重于测试和解决内生性问题和教育结果指标中的内生性问题。这项研究还将青年期间的物质使用和教育成果与决策者可以控制的州级政策联系起来，例如啤酒的州消费税，大麻非刑事化，教师的薪水和学生/教师比率。该研究中使用的数据集是：（1）1979年的《国家青年纵向调查》； （2）全国青年纵向调查的孩子； （3）《国家青年纵向调查》，1997年； （4）1988 - 1996年《国家教育纵向研究》。 Chatterji博士作为药物使用研究人员的长期职业目标是将她作为健康经济学家的培训与心理学和教育研究的坚实基础相结合。为了实现这一目标，她将与Grossman博士以及哥伦比亚大学及其家庭系，Albert Einstein医学学院/蒙特菲奥雷医疗中心的流行病学和社会医学系的跨学科合作师紧密合作。她还将将该奖项的头两年投入到发展心理学，教育政策，主要数据收集，一般药物使用问题和研究伦理方面的课程，监督阅读和研讨会。这种背景将为Chatterji博士提供她设计新颖的，与政策相关的物质使用研究项目所需的技能。