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Is There An Informal Employment Wage Penalty?Evidence from South Africa

Badaoui, Eliane; Strobl, Eric; Walsh, Frank - Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2007

We estimate the wage penalty associated with working in the South African informal sector.To this end we use a rich data set on non-self employed males that allows one to accuratelydistinguish workers employed in the informal sector from those employed in the formal sectorand link individuals...

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Public Goods Provision and Sanctioning inPrivileged Groups

Reuben, Ernesto; Riedl, Arno - Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2007

In public good provision, privileged groups enjoy the advantage that some of its membersfind it optimal to supply a positive amount of the public good. However, their inherentasymmetric nature may make the enforcement of cooperative behavior through informalsanctioning harder to accomplish...

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Overweight and Poor? On the Relationship between Income and the Body Mass Index

Jolliffe, Dean - 2010

distribution. There is a strong negative income gradient in BMI at the obesity threshold and some evidence of a positive gradient …

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The Weight of the Crisis : Evidence from Newborns in Argentina

Bozzoli, Carlos - 2010

Argentina hit headlines around the world in 2002 on account of the largest debt default in history and a sudden economic collapse that generated statistics reminiscent of those from the Great Depression. In this article we focus on other consequences of the crisis that are not so obvious but...

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Running and Jumping Variables in RD Designs : Evidence Based on Race, Socioeconomic Status, and Birth Weights

Barreca, Alan I. - 2010

Throughout the years spanned by the U.S. Vital Statistics Linked Birth and Infant Death Data (1983-2002), birth weights are measured most precisely for children of white and highly educated mothers. As a result, less healthy children, who are more likely to be of low socioeconomic status, are...

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The Effects of Female Labor Force Participation on Obesity

Porqueras, Pedro Gomis - 2011

and the increased prevalence of obesity amongst women. The expansions of the Earned Income Tax Credit (EITC) in the 1980s … force participation on obesity status. We use data from the National Health Interview Survey (NHIS) and replicate labor … increased labor force participation can account for at most 19% of the observed change in obesity prevalence over our sample …

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The Geographic Accessibility of Child Care Subsidies and Evidence on the Impact of Subsidy Receipt on Childhood Obesity

Herbst, Chris M. - 2011

to sizeable increases in the prevalence of overweight and obesity among low-income children …

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Unfit for Service : The Implications of Rising Obesity for U.S. Military Recruitment

Cawley, John - 2011

examining a previously underappreciated consequence of the rise in obesity in the United States: challenges for military …

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The Consequences of Measurement Error When Estimating the Impact of BMI on Labour Market Outcomes

O'Neill, Donal - 2012

This paper uses data on both self-reported and true measures of individual Body Mass Index (BMI) to examine the nature of measurement error in self-reported BMI and to look at the consequences of using self-reported measures when estimating the effect of BMI on economic outcomes. In keeping with...

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The Impact of Physical Education on Obesity Among Elementary School Children

Cawley, John - 2012

In response to the dramatic rise in childhood obesity, the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) and other organizations …-2004. Results from IV models indicate that PE lowers BMI z-score and reduces the probability of obesity among 5th graders (in … represents some of the first evidence of a causal effect of PE on youth obesity, and thus offers at least some support to the …

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