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Does obesity hurt your wages more in Dublin than in Madrid? : Evidence from ECHP
D'Hombres, Beatrice (contributor);  … - 2005
We use data from the European Community Household Panel to investigate the impact of obesity on wages in 9 European … countries, ranging from Ireland to Spain. We find that the common impact of obesity on wages is negative and statistically … wages in the countries of the European "olive belt" and a positive relationship in the countries of the "beer belt". We …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003039649
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Health and the wage rate : cause, effect, both, or neither? : new evidence on an old question
Dench, Daniel; Grossman, Michael - 2018
estimation methods in this investigation. We uncover a causal relationship between two of five measures of health and the wage in …We investigate two-way causality between health and the hourly wage by employing insights from the human capital and … which a reduction in health leads to an increase in the wage rate in a panel of U.S. young adults who had completed their …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011949107
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The effect of higher education on women's obesity and smoking : evidence from college openings in Turkey
Baltagi, Badi H.; Flores-Lagunes, Alfonso; Karatas, Haci M. - 2022
This paper analyzes the relationship between higher education and body weight and smoking behavior among women in Turkey. We exploit the largely exogenous and substantial increase in the openings of universities throughout Turkey. Based on the spatial and temporal variability of university...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013198942
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Birth weight in the long run
Bharadwaj, Prashant; Lundborg, Petter; Rooth, Dan-Olof - 2015
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011311660
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Birth Weight in the Long Run
Bharadwaj, Prashant - 2015
We study the effect of birth weight on long-run outcomes, including permanent income, income across various stages of the lifecycle, education, social benefits take-up, and adult mortality. For this purpose, we have linked a unique dataset on nearly all Swedish twins born between 1926- 1958,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013019490
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Birth weight in the long run
Bharadwaj, Prashant; Lundborg, Petter; Rooth, Dan-Olof - In: Journal of human resources : JHR 53 (2018) 1, pp. 189-231
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011812446
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Birth Weight in the Long Run
Bharadwaj, Prashant - 2015
We study the effect of birth weight on long-run outcomes, including permanent income, income across various stages of the lifecycle, education, social benefits take-up, and adult mortality. For this purpose, we have linked a unique dataset on nearly all Swedish twins born between 1926- 1958,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012457314
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Individual returns to health in Brazil : a quantile regression analysis
Rivera, Berta; Currais, Luis - In: Health and economic growth : findings and policy …, (pp. 287-311). 2005
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003075734
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Health and the Wage Rate : Cause, Effect, Both, or Neither? New Evidence on an Old Question
Dench, Daniel - 2018
estimation methods in this investigation. We uncover a causal relationship between two of five measures of health and the wage in …We investigate two-way causality between health and the hourly wage by employing insights from the human capital and … which a reduction in health leads to an increase in the wage rate in a panel of U.S. young adults who had completed their …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012906526
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Health and the Wage : Cause, Effect, Both, or Neither? New Evidence on an Old Question
Dench, Daniel - 2018
estimation methods in this investigation. We uncover a causal relationship between two of five measures of health and the wage in …We investigate two-way causality between health and the hourly wage by employing insights from the human capital and … which a reduction in health leads to an increase in the wage rate but find no evidence of a causal relationship running from …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012907762