Wages and Weight in Europe: Evidence using Quantile Regression Model

Vincenzo Atella, Noemi Pace and Daniela Vuri ()

CHILD Working Papers from CHILD - Centre for Household, Income, Labour and Demographic economics - ITALY

Abstract: The aim of this research is to investigate the relationship between obesity and wages, using data for nine countries from the European Com- munity Household Panel (ECHP) over the period 1998-2001. We improve upon the existing literature by adopting a Quantile Regression approach to characterize the heterogenous impact of obesity at different points of the wage distribution. Our results show that i) the evidence obtained from mean regression and pooled analysis hides a significant amount of heterogeneity as the relationship between obesity and wages differs across countries and wages quantiles and ii) cultural, environmental or insti- tutional settings do not seem to be able to explain differences among countries, leaving room for a pure discriminatory effect hypothesis.

Keywords: quantile treatment effect; obesity; wages; endogeneity (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: C12 C21 C23 I10 I18 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 55 pages
Date: 2007-09
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