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International Health Economics Association Seventeenth Annual Kenneth J. Arrow Award in Health Economics
(John Wiley & Sons, Ltd., 2008-09)
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Genetic information, obesity, and labor market outcomes
(John Wiley & Sons, Ltd., 2008-09)
Economists have argued that obesity may lead to worse labor market outcomes, especially for women. Empirical methods to test this hypothesis have not thus far adequately controlled for the endogeneity of obesity. We use ...
Weight and wages: fat versus lean paychecks
(John Wiley & Sons, Ltd., 2009-05)
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 ...
Proximity to death and participation in the long-term care market
(John Wiley & Sons, Ltd., 2009-08)
The extent to which increasing longevity increases per capita demand for long-term care depends on the degree to which utilization is concentrated at the end of life. We estimate the marginal effect of proximity to death, ...