Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/119798 
Year of Publication: 
2014
Series/Report no.: 
HEG Working Paper No. 14-03
Publisher: 
University of East Anglia, Health Economics Group (HEG), Norwich
Abstract: 
This study explores the impact of diabetes on employment in Mexico using data from the Mexican Family Life Survey (MxFLS) (2005), taking into account the possible endogeneity of diabetes via an instrumental variable estimation strategy. We find that diabetes significantly decreases employment probabilities for men by about 9.9 percent (p<0.01) and somewhat less so for women - 4.2 percent (p<0.1) - without any indication of diabetes being endogenous. Further analysis shows that diabetes mainly affects the employment probabilities of people above the age of 44 and also has stronger effects on the poor than on the rich, particularly for men. Our results highlight -for the first time - the detrimental employment impact of diabetes in a developing country.
Subjects: 
diabetes
employment
instrumental variables
Mexico
JEL: 
I10
J01
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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