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Who Pays for Obesity? Evidence from Health Insurance Benefit Mandates Economics Letters 121,2 (November 2013): 287-289. Also: http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0165176513004023 Cohort(s): NLSY79 Publisher: Elsevier Keyword(s): Geocoded Data; Insurance, Health; Obesity; State-Level Data/Policy; Wages Is there an obesity externality? In the late 1990’s and early 2000’s, many state governments began requiring health insurance plans to cover treatments for diabetes. Using difference-in-difference analysis of restricted geocode data from the 1979 National Longitudinal Survey of Youth to compare wages across states with and without diabetes mandates, I find that obese people pay for all of their own increased health costs in the form of lower wages, rather than passing them on to employers, insurers, and co-workers. |
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Bailey, James. "Who Pays for Obesity? Evidence from Health Insurance Benefit Mandates." Economics Letters 121,2 (November 2013): 287-289.
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