Health, obesity, and earnings

R.A. McLean and M. Moon

American Journal of Public Health, 1980, vol. 70, issue 9, 1006-1009

Abstract: Published reports and economic theory suggest that a worker's earnings may be affected by his degree of obesity. The purpose of this research was to estimate the size of such an effect. The earnings-obesity hypothesis was tested with data from the National Longitudinal Survey of Mature Men. Results of the test suggest that, for members of that sample, there is no earnings-depressant effect due to obesity.

Date: 1980
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