Obesity, Self-esteem and WagesNaci H. Mocan, Erdal Tekin
NBER Working Paper No. 15101 Obesity is associated with serious health problems, and it can generate adverse economic outcomes. We analyze a nationally-representative sample of young American adults to investigate the interplay between obesity, wages and self-esteem. Wages can be impacted directly by obesity, and they can be influenced by obesity indirectly through the channel of obesity to self-esteem to wages. We find that female wages are directly influenced by body weight, and self-esteem has an impact on wages in case of whites. Being overweight or obese has a negative impact on the self-esteem of females and of black males. The results suggest that obesity has the most significant impact on white women's wages. The NBER Bulletin on Aging and Health provides summaries of publications like this.
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Machine-readable bibliographic record - MARC, RIS, BibTeX Document Object Identifier (DOI): 10.3386/w15101 Published: Obesity, Self-Esteem and Wages, Naci Mocan, Erdal Tekin. in Economic Aspects of Obesity, Grossman and Mocan. 2011 Users who downloaded this paper also downloaded these:
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