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Body weight and wages: evidence from Add Health.

San Diego State University, Department of Economics, 5500 Campanile Drive, San Diego, CA 92182-4485, United States.
Economics and human biology (impact factor: 2.02). 01/2012; 10(1):14-9. DOI:10.1016/j.ehb.2011.09.004 pp.14-9
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ABSTRACT This note uses data from the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent Health to examine the relationship between body weight and wages. Ordinary least squares (OLS) and individual fixed effects estimates provide evidence that overweight and obese white women are paid substantially less per hour than their slimmer counterparts. Two-stage least squares (2SLS) estimation confirms this relationship, suggesting that it is not driven by time-variant unobservables.

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Keywords

2SLS
 
Adolescent Health
 
effects estimates
 
obese white women
 
OLS
 
overweight