Health Econometric: Uncovering the Anthropometric Behavior on Women's Labor Market

Rodrigo Lopez-Pablos

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Abstract: Exploring current literature which assess relations between cognitive ability and height, obesity, and its productivity-employability effect on women's labor market; we appraised the Argentine case to find these social-physical relations that involve anthropometric and traditional economic variables. Adapting an anthropometric Mincer approach by using probabilistic and censured econometric models which were developed for it. Have been found evidence that could be understood as existence of discriminative behavior on obese women to market entrance; besides, a good performance of women height as an unobserved approximation of cognitive ability measure to explain feminine productivity.

Keywords: Height; Obesity; Anthropometric Mincer; Discrimination (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: C34 I12 J24 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2007-08-30, Revised 2007-11-26
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