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Burkhauser, Richard V. Cawley, John |
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Obesity, Disability, and Movement onto the Disability Insurance Rolls Research Brief RB2005-073, University of Michigan Retirement Research Center, January 2005. Also: http://www.mrrc.isr.umich.edu/publications/briefs/pdf/rb073.pdf?CFID=28217&CFTOKEN=64836911 Cohort(s): NLSY79 Publisher: Institute for Social Research (ISR), University of Michigan Keyword(s): Body Mass Index (BMI); Disability; Insurance, Health; Obesity; Panel Study of Income Dynamics (PSID); Weight Permission to reprint the abstract has not been received from the publisher. Between the early 1980s and 2002, both the prevalence of obesity and the number of beneficiaries of the Social Security Disability Insurance program doubled. We test whether these trends are related; specifically, we test whether obesity causes disability and movement onto the disability rolls. We estimate models of instrumental variables using two nationally representative datasets: the Panel Survey of Income Dynamics and the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth, 1979 Cohort. The results are mixed but we find evidence that weight increases the probability of health-related work limitations and the probability of receiving disability related income. Our results suggest that the failure to treat obesity as endogenous leads to dramatic underestimates of the link between obesity and disability outcomes. |
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Burkhauser, Richard V. and John Cawley. "Obesity, Disability, and Movement onto the Disability Insurance Rolls." Research Brief RB2005-073, University of Michigan Retirement Research Center, January 2005. |