Obesity and the Incidence of Chronic Diseases: a Seemingly Unrelated Probit Approach

Joan Costa-Font and Joan Gil

No 137, Working Papers in Economics from Universitat de Barcelona. Espai de Recerca en Economia

Abstract: Western societies can reduce avoidable mortality and morbidity by better understanding the relationship between obesity and chronic disease. This paper examines the joint determinants of obesity and of heart disease, diabetes, hypertension, and elevated cholesterol. It analyzes a broadly representative Spanish dataset, the 1999 Survey on Disabilities, Impairments and Health Status, using a health production theoretical framework together with a seemingly unrelated probit model approach that controls for unobserved heterogeneity and endogeneity. Its findings provide suggestive evidence of a positive and significant, although specification-dependent, association between obesity and the prevalence of chronic illness.

JEL-codes: I12 I18 I19 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 45 pages
Date: 2005
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