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Title: Does Leaving School in a Bad Economy Affect Body Weight?: Evidence from Panel Data
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Maclean, Johanna Catherine |
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Does Leaving School in a Bad Economy Affect Body Weight?: Evidence from Panel Data Presented: Baltimore MD, AcademyHealth Annual Research Meeting, June 2013 Cohort(s): NLSY79 Publisher: AcademyHealth Keyword(s): Body Mass Index (BMI); Economic Changes/Recession; Educational Attainment; Educational Returns; Gender Differences; Health, Mental/Psychological; Health/Health Status/SF-12 Scale; Labor Market Outcomes; School Completion; School Dropouts; Schooling; State-Level Data/Policy; Unemployment Rate; Weight Permission to reprint the abstract has not been received from the publisher. I examine three measures of body weight at age 40: body mass index (BMI), overweight (BMI >= 25), and obesity (BMI >= 30). Data are drawn from the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth 1979 Cohort (NLS79). School -leaving is defined by school completion, and includes both graduates and drop-outs. I proxy economic conditions at school-leaving with the state unemployment rate, and exploit variation generated by volatility in the U.S. business cycle between 1976 and 1992 to identify body weight effects. Because the severe recession of the early 1980s lies within this time period, I effectively compare cohorts that left before, during, and after this recession. To address the potential endogeneity of the time and location of school-leaving, I instrument the school-leaving state unemployment rate. I estimate sex-specific equations given the different labor market participation patterns of men and women. |
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Maclean, Johanna Catherine. "Does Leaving School in a Bad Economy Affect Body Weight?: Evidence from Panel Data." Presented: Baltimore MD, AcademyHealth Annual Research Meeting, June 2013. |