Cumulative Effects on Weight Due to an Initial Occupational Choice as a Blue Collar Worker

Bogdan Nedanov and Charles Link
Additional contact information
Bogdan Nedanov: Department of Economics, University of Delaware, Newark, DE 19716, USA

Eastern Economic Journal, 2015, vol. 41, issue 3, 430-442

Abstract: The objective is to estimate the effect on one’s weight decades later of choosing a blue-collar job as his/her initial job. Various two stage models treat occupational choice to be endogenous. Using strong instrumental variables to identify occupational choice yields statistically significant results indicating that the initial choice of a blue-collar job is associated with an increase of 6.6 percent (4.8 percent) in the probability of being overweight (obese). We also find that an additional year of blue-collar work is associated with an increase of 1.1 percent and 1.4 percent in the probability of being overweight and obese, respectively.

Date: 2015
References: Add references at CitEc
Citations:

Downloads: (external link)
http://www.palgrave-journals.com/eej/journal/v41/n3/pdf/eej201520a.pdf Link to full text PDF (application/pdf)
http://www.palgrave-journals.com/eej/journal/v41/n3/full/eej201520a.html Link to full text HTML (text/html)
Access to full text is restricted to subscribers.

Related works:
Working Paper: CUMULATIVE EFFECTS ON WEIGHT DUE TO AN INITIAL OCCUPATIONAL CHOICE AS A BLUE COLLAR WORKER (2014)
This item may be available elsewhere in EconPapers: Search for items with the same title.

Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text

Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:pal:easeco:v:41:y:2015:i:3:p:430-442

Ordering information: This journal article can be ordered from
http://www.springer.com/economics/journal/41302

Access Statistics for this article

Eastern Economic Journal is currently edited by Allan Zebedee and Cynthia Bansak

More articles in Eastern Economic Journal from Palgrave Macmillan, Eastern Economic Association Contact information at EDIRC.
Bibliographic data for series maintained by Sonal Shukla () and Springer Nature Abstracting and Indexing ().