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Title: The Mediation Effect of Self-Esteem on Weight and Earnings
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DeBeaumont, Ronald Girtz, Robert |
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The Mediation Effect of Self-Esteem on Weight and Earnings Atlantic Economic Journal published online (18 January 2020): DOI: 10.1007/s11293-019-09648-z. Also: https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11293-019-09648-z Cohort(s): NLSY79 Publisher: International Atlantic Economic Society Keyword(s): Earnings; Gender Differences; Obesity; Self-Esteem; Wage Penalty/Career Penalty; Weight Permission to reprint the abstract has not been received from the publisher. Prior research has consistently documented a weight-related earnings penalty for females. However, there is debate concerning the existence of a similar wage penalty for men, with many studies having found no statistically significant effect. Prior research has also found a wage penalty associated with lower self-esteem. Drawing data from the 1979 cohort of the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth, we refine the empirical relationship among self-esteem, wages, and weight. Implementing mediation models, our results suggest men face an obesity wage penalty, but the penalty is characterized through a persistent decrease in self-esteem when relatively young which leads to lower wages as adults. In contrast, the obesity wage penalty for females is not mediated through lower self-esteem and is likely the result of factors related to contemporaneous body weight. |
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DeBeaumont, Ronald and Robert Girtz. "The Mediation Effect of Self-Esteem on Weight and Earnings." Atlantic Economic Journal published online (18 January 2020): DOI: 10.1007/s11293-019-09648-z.
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