Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/35307 
Year of Publication: 
2009
Series/Report no.: 
IZA Discussion Papers No. 4099
Publisher: 
Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA), Bonn
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
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Document Type: 
Working Paper

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