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The consequences of measurement error when estimating the impact of obesity on income
O'Neill, Donal; Sweetman, Olive - In: IZA Journal of Labor Economics 2 (2013), pp. 1-20
This paper examines the consequences of using self-reported measures of BMI when estimating the effect of BMI on income for women using both Irish and US data. We find that self-reported BMI is subject to substantial measurement error and that this error deviates from classical measurement...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010333100
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The consequences of measurement error when estimating the impact of obesity on income
O'Neill, Donal; Sweetman, Olive B. - In: IZA Journal of Labor Economics 2 (2013), pp. 1-20
This paper examines the consequences of using self-reported measures of BMI when estimating the effect of BMI on income for women using both Irish and US data. We find that self-reported BMI is subject to substantial measurement error and that this error deviates from classical measurement...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009764388
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The consequences of measurement error when estimating the impact of obesity on income
Donal O’Neill; Sweetman, Olive - In: IZA Journal of Labor Economics 2 (2013) 1, pp. 1-20
C13, C26, I14 </AbstractSection> Copyright O’Neill and Sweetman; licensee Springer. 2013
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010993750
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The consequences of measurement error when estimating the impact of obesity on income
O’Neill, Donal; Sweetman, Olive - In: IZA Journal of Labor Economics 2 (2013), pp. 1-20
This paper examines the consequences of using self-reported measures of BMI when estimating the effect of BMI on income for women using both Irish and US data. We find that self-reported BMI is subject to substantial measurement error and that this error deviates from classical measurement...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010148484