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| Title: | | Obesity and labor market outcomes: evidence from the British NCDS  |
| Authors: | | Lindeboom, Maarten Lundborg, Petter van der Klaauw, Bas |
| Issue Date: | | 2009 |
| Series/Report no.: | | IZA discussion papers 4099 |
| Abstract: | | We study the effect of obesity on wages and employment, using data from the British NCDS. The results show a significant negative association between obesity and labor market outcomes even after controlling for a rich set of demographic, socioeconomic, environmental and behavioral variables. After instrumenting with parental obesity the associations are no longer significant. We show that the intergenerational correlation in obesity is mainly due to genetic variation. However, the instruments do not always pass the overidentification tests and are sometimes weak. We are therefore somewhat sceptical about using parental obesity as an instrument. |
| Subjects: | | Obesity wages employment labor endogeneity |
| JEL: | | I10 J10 |
| Persistent Identifier of the first edition: | | urn:nbn:de:101:1-20090403122 |
| Document Type: | | Working Paper |
| Appears in Collections: | | IZA Discussion Papers, Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit (IZA)
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