Assessing the impact of obesity on labor market outcomes

作者:Lindeboom Maarten; Lundborg Petter*; van der Klaauw Bas
来源:Economics and Human Biology, 2010, 8(3): 309-319.
DOI:10.1016/j.ehb.2010.08.004

摘要

We study the effect of obesity on employment using rich data from the British National Child Development Study (NCDS) The results show a significant negative association between obesity and employment even after controlling for a rich set of demographic socioeconomic environmental and behavioral variables In order to account for the endogeneity of obesity we use and assess instruments Introduced by Cawley (2004) the obesity status of biological relatives Using parental obesity as an instrument we show that the association between obesity and employment is no longer significant Similar results are obtained in a model of first differences We provide a numbe

  • 出版日期2010-12