Obesity and labor market outcomes: evidence from the British NCDS

Arbeitspapier

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.

Angaben zum Objekt

• Sprache: Englisch

Verweise und Beziehungen

• Erschienen in: Series: IZA Discussion Papers ; No. 4099

Klassifikation und Themen

• Klassifikation: Wirtschaft ; Health: General ; Demographic Economics: General
• Thema: Obesity ; wages ; employment ; labor ; endogeneity ; Gesundheitsrisiko ; Lohn ; Arbeitsverhältnis ; Großbritannien

Beteiligte, Orts- und Zeitangaben

• Ereignis: Geistige Schöpfung
• (wer): Lindeboom, Maarten ; Lundborg, Petter ; van der Klaauw, Bas
• Ereignis: Veröffentlichung
• (wer): Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA)
• (wo): Bonn
• (wann): 2009

Weitere Informationen

• Handle: http://hdl.handle.net/10419/35307
• URN: urn:nbn:de:101:1-20090403122
• Letzte Aktualisierung: 10.03.2025, 11:44 MEZ