Youthful Substance Use and Educational Outcomes

青少年药物使用和教育成果

• 批准号: 6399936
• 负责人: PINKA CHATTERJI
• 金额: $ 8.34万
• 依托单位: MONTEFIORE MEDICAL CENTER (BRONX, NY)
• 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/6399936
• 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.

美国青少年的酒精和其他药物使用率仍然很高，使青少年药物使用成为一个紧迫的公共卫生问题。这一建议涉及青少年药物使用的一个重要而又知之甚少的方面 青年时期物质使用与教育成果之间的关系。这个指导研究科学家发展奖提案的目的是给平卡Chatterji，博士。有机会对药物使用和儿童教育发展进行为期五年的综合研究。在Michael Grossman博士的赞助下，Chatterji博士建议使用几个国家的数据集和计量经济学方法来估计：（1）小学和中学的阅读和数学成绩测试成绩、行为问题和成绩差之间的关系，以及后来开始使用酒精和其他药物的频率和强度;以及（2）青少年饮酒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侧重于测试和解决药物使用和教育成果措施中的内分泌问题。该研究还将青年时期的物质使用和教育成果与决策者可以控制的州一级政策联系起来，例如州啤酒消费税，大麻合法化，教师工资和学生/教师比例。研究中使用的数据集是：（1）1979年全国青年纵向调查;（2）全国青年纵向调查的儿童;（3）1997年全国青年纵向调查;（4）1988-1996年全国教育纵向研究。Chatterji博士作为物质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，她将与格罗斯曼博士和来自哥伦比亚大学及其家庭部门的多学科共同导师小组密切合作，该部门是阿尔伯特爱因斯坦医学院/蒙蒂菲奥里医学中心的流行病学和社会医学系。她还将把该奖项的前两年用于发展心理学、教育政策、主要数据收集、一般物质使用问题和研究伦理方面的课程、监督阅读和研讨会。这一背景将使Chatterji博士具备作为独立调查员设计新颖的、与政策相关的物质使用研究项目所需的技能。