TY  - RPRT
        AU  - Lindeboom, Maarten
AU  - Lundborg, Petter
AU  - Klaauw, Bas van der
        TI  - Obesity and Labor Market Outcomes: Evidence from the British NCDS
        PY  - 2009/Mar/
        PB  - Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)
        CY  - Bonn
        T2  - IZA Discussion Paper
        IS  - 4099
        UR  - https://www.iza.org/index.php/publications/dp4099
        AB  - We study the effect of obesity on wages and employment, using data from the British NCDS. The results show a significant negative association between obesity and labor market outcomes even after controlling for a rich set of demographic, socioeconomic, environmental and behavioral variables. After instrumenting with parental obesity the associations are no longer significant. We show that the intergenerational correlation in obesity is mainly due to genetic variation. However, the instruments do not always pass the overidentification tests and are sometimes weak. We are therefore somewhat sceptical about using parental obesity as an instrument.
        KW  - endogeneity
KW  - employment
KW  - wages
KW  - labor
KW  - obesity
        ER  -