Weight and wages: fat versus lean paychecks
dc.contributor.author | Han, Euna | en_US |
dc.contributor.author | Norton, Edward C. | en_US |
dc.contributor.author | Stearns, Sally C. | en_US |
dc.date.accessioned | 2009-05-04T18:25:38Z | |
dc.date.available | 2010-07-06T14:30:31Z | en_US |
dc.date.issued | 2009-05 | en_US |
dc.identifier.citation | Han, Euna; Norton, Edward C.; Stearns, Sally C. (2009). "Weight and wages: fat versus lean paychecks." Health Economics 18(5): 535-548. <http://hdl.handle.net/2027.42/62135> | en_US |
dc.identifier.issn | 1057-9230 | en_US |
dc.identifier.issn | 1099-1050 | en_US |
dc.identifier.uri | https://hdl.handle.net/2027.42/62135 | |
dc.identifier.uri | http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/sites/entrez?cmd=retrieve&db=pubmed&list_uids=18677723&dopt=citation | en_US |
dc.description.abstract | Past empirical work has shown a negative relationship between the body mass index (BMI) and wages in most cases. We improve on this work by allowing the marginal effect of non-linear BMI groups to vary by gender, age, and type of interpersonal relationships required in each occupation. We use the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth 1979 (1982–1998). We find that the often-reported negative relationship between the BMI and wages is larger in occupations requiring interpersonal skills with presumably more social interactions. Also, the wage penalty increases as the respondents get older beyond their mid-twenties. We show that being overweight and obese penalizes the probability of employment across all race–gender subgroups except black women and men. Our results for the obesity–wage association can be explained by either consumers or employers having distaste for obese workers. Copyright © 2008 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd. | en_US |
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dc.format.extent | 3118 bytes | |
dc.format.mimetype | application/pdf | |
dc.format.mimetype | text/plain | |
dc.publisher | John Wiley & Sons, Ltd. | en_US |
dc.subject.other | Life and Medical Sciences | en_US |
dc.subject.other | Epidemiology, Biostatistics and Public Health | en_US |
dc.title | Weight and wages: fat versus lean paychecks | en_US |
dc.type | Article | en_US |
dc.rights.robots | IndexNoFollow | en_US |
dc.subject.hlbsecondlevel | Economics | en_US |
dc.subject.hlbsecondlevel | Medicine (General) | en_US |
dc.subject.hlbsecondlevel | Statistics and Numeric Data | en_US |
dc.subject.hlbsecondlevel | Public Health | en_US |
dc.subject.hlbtoplevel | Health Sciences | en_US |
dc.subject.hlbtoplevel | Business | en_US |
dc.subject.hlbtoplevel | Science | en_US |
dc.subject.hlbtoplevel | Social Sciences | en_US |
dc.description.peerreviewed | Peer Reviewed | en_US |
dc.contributor.affiliationum | Department of Health Management and Policy, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, USA ; Department of Economics, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, USA | en_US |
dc.contributor.affiliationother | Institute for Health Research and Policy, University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, IL, USA ; Institute for Health Research and Policy, University of Illinois at Chicago, 1747 West Roosevelt Road, Room 449, Chicago, IL 60608, USA | en_US |
dc.contributor.affiliationother | Department of Health Policy and Administration, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, NC, USA | en_US |
dc.identifier.pmid | 18677723 | en_US |
dc.description.bitstreamurl | http://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/bitstream/2027.42/62135/1/1386_ftp.pdf | |
dc.identifier.doi | 10.1002/hec.1386 | en_US |
dc.identifier.source | Health Economics | en_US |
dc.owningcollname | Interdisciplinary and Peer-Reviewed |
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