CUMULATIVE EFFECTS ON WEIGHT DUE TO AN INITIAL OCCUPATIONAL CHOICE AS A BLUE COLLAR WORKER

Bogdan Nedanov () and Charles Link
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Bogdan Nedanov: Department of Economics,University of Delaware

No 14-11, Working Papers from University of Delaware, Department of Economics

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. OLS and probit models are estimated, using dummy variables for overweight and obesity as the dependent variables. 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% (4.8%) 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% and 1.4% in the probability of being overweight and obese, respectively.

Keywords: occupational choice; obesity; initial blue collar jobs; strong instruments; health general (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: I10 I12 I13 I19 J24 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 27 pages
Date: 2014
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