Search Results
Title: Obesity and Labor Market Outcomes
Resulting in 1 citation.
| 1. |
Cawley, John |
|
Obesity and Labor Market Outcomes Working Paper, Department of Policy Analysis and Management, Cornell University, Ithaca NY, 2002 Cohort(s): NLSY79 Publisher: Department of Policy Analysis and Management, Cornell University Keyword(s): Blue-Collar Jobs; Body Mass Index (BMI); Discrimination; Ethnic Differences; Gender; Height; Labor Market Outcomes; Modeling; Obesity; Racial Differences; Wages; Weight; White Collar Jobs Permission to reprint the abstract has not been received from the publisher. Previous studies of the relationship between body weight and wages found mixed results. This paper uses a larger dataset and several regression strategies in an attempt to generate more consistent estimates of the effect of body weight on wages. Differences across gender, race and ethnicity are explored. This paper finds that weight lowers wages for white females; OLS estimates indicate that a difference in weight of two standard deviations (roughly sixty-five pounds) is associated with a difference in wages of 9%. In absolute value, this is equivalent to the wage effect of roughly on and a half years of education or three years of work experience. Negative correlations between weight and wages observed for gender-ethnic groups other than white females appear to be due to unobserved heterogeneity. For all gender-ethnic groups, there is little evidence that current wages affect current weight. |
|
|
Bibliography Citation
Cawley, John. "Obesity and Labor Market Outcomes." Working Paper, Department of Policy Analysis and Management, Cornell University, Ithaca NY, 2002. |