The impact of diabetes on employment in Mexico

Till Seuring, Yevgeniy Goryakin and Marc Suhrcke
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Till Seuring: Health Economics Group, Norwich Medical School, University of East Anglia, Norwich, UK

No 100cherp, Working Papers from Centre for Health Economics, University of York

Abstract: This study explores the impact of diabetes on employment in Mexico using data from the Mexican Family Life Survey (MxFLS) (2005), taking into account the possible endogeneity of diabetes via an instrumental variable estimation strategy. We find that diabetes significantly decreases employment probabilities for men by about 9.9 percent (p

Keywords: diabetes; emplyment; instrumental variables; Mexico (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: I10 J01 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 27 pages
Date: 2014-07
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