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http://dspace.mediu.edu.my:8181/xmlui/handle/10419/17980| Title: | West-East Convergence in the Prevalence of Illicit Drugs: Socioeconomics or Culture? |
| Keywords: | I12 P23 P36 ddc:330 illicit drugs west-east convergence decomposition Drogenkonsum Entwicklungskonvergenz Dekompositionsverfahren Schätzung Neue Bundesländer Alte Bundesländer Deutschland |
| Issue Date: | 16-Oct-2013 |
| Publisher: | Kiel Institute for the World Economy (IfW) Kiel |
| Description: | In contrast to West-Germany, illicit drugs were virtually absent in the East-Germany until 1990. Yet, after the collapse of the former GDR, East-Germany was expected to encounter a sharp increase in the prevalence of substance abuse. By analyzing individual data, we find that East-Germany largely caught up with West-Germany?s ever-growing prevalence of illicit drugs within a single decade. We decompose the west-east difference in prevalence rates into an explained and an unexplained part using a modified Blinder-Oaxaca procedure. This decomposition suggests that the observed convergence is just weakly related to socioeconomic characteristics and therefore remains mainly unexplained. That is, West- and East-Germans seem to have become more alike per se. We conclude that both parts of the country have converged in terms of the culture of drug consumption. |
| URI: | http://koha.mediu.edu.my:8181/xmlui/handle/10419/17980 |
| Other Identifiers: | http://hdl.handle.net/10419/17980 ppn:560134800 RePEc:zbw:ifwedp:7129 |
| Appears in Collections: | EconStor |
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