Direct and indirect effects of body weight on adult wages
Direct and indirect effects of body weight on adult wages
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DOI：
10.1016/j.ehb.2011.07.002
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发表时间：
2011-12-01
影响因子：
2.5
通讯作者：
Powell, Lisa M.
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作者：
Han, Enna;Norton, Edward C.;Powell, Lisa M.
以前的估计之间的关联体重和工资的文献一直是有条件的教育和职业。除了当前体重状况（体重指数（BMI）或肥胖）对工资的影响外，本文还研究了青少年后期体重状况通过教育和职业选择对工资的间接影响。使用1979年全国青年纵向调查数据，对于女性，我们发现BMI增加一个单位与每小时工资降低1.83%直接相关，而间接的BMI工资惩罚在统计学上并不显著。没有发现直接或间接的BMI工资惩罚对男子的影响。然而，基于临床体重分类的结果显示，间接工资惩罚在更大程度上发生在男性和女性的BMI分布的上尾，通过教育和职业结果的途径。青少年后期肥胖与男女每小时工资降低3.5%间接相关。这些结果很重要，因为它们意味着肥胖对工资的总影响要比以前的横断面研究估计的要大得多。(C)2011爱思唯尔有限公司版权所有。
Previous estimates of the association between body weight and wages in the literature have been conditional on education and occupation. In addition to the effect of current body weight status (body mass index (BMI) or obesity) on wages, this paper examines the indirect effect of body weight status in the late-teenage years on wages operating through education and occupation choice. Using the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth 1979 data, for women, we find that a one-unit increase in BMI is directly associated with 1.83% lower hourly wages whereas the indirect BMI wage penalty is not statistically significant. Neither a direct nor an indirect BMI wage penalty is found for men. However, results based on clinical weight classification reveal that the indirect wage penalty occurs to a larger extent at the upper tail of the BMI distribution for both men and women via the pathways of education and occupation outcomes. Late-teen obesity is indirectly associated with 3.5% lower hourly wages for both women and men. These results are important because they imply that the total effect of obesity on wages is significantly larger than has been estimated in previous cross-sectional studies. (C) 2011 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.