THE WEIGHT OF SUCCESS: THE BODY MASS INDEX AND ECONOMIC WELL-BEING IN SOUTHERN AFRICA.
THE WEIGHT OF SUCCESS: THE BODY MASS INDEX AND ECONOMIC WELL-BEING IN SOUTHERN AFRICA.
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成功的权重：南非的体重指数和经济福祉。
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10.1111/roiw.12029
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2013
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Wittenberg,Martin
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我们发现，体重增加与经济资源之间的大多数南部非洲人，虽然不是所有。在南非黑人中，几乎在整个收入/财富范围内，这种关系都是非递减的。此外，在这一组中，其他“成功”的衡量标准（例如，就业和教育）也与体重的增加有关。1998年（人口与健康调查）和2008年（国民收入动态调查）都是如此。莱索托、斯威士兰、莫桑比克、马拉维和纳米比亚的居民之间也有类似的关系。这表明体重可以作为衡量幸福的粗略标准。这使我们能够研究南非劳动经济学中的一个争论不休的问题，即是否存在非自愿失业。即使我们控制了家庭固定效应，失业者的体重也比就业者轻，这一事实表明，他们并没有选择这种状态。
We show that body mass increases with economic resources among most Southern Africans, although not all. Among Black South Africans the relationship is non‐decreasing over virtually the entire range of incomes/wealth. Furthermore in this group other measures of “success” (e.g., employment and education) are also associated with increases in body mass. This is true in both 1998 (the Demographic and Health Survey) and 2008 (National Income Dynamics Survey). A similar relationship holds among residents of Lesotho, Swaziland, Mozambique, Malawi, and Namibia. This suggests that body mass can be used as a crude measure of well‐being. This allows us to examine the vexed question in South African labor economics whether there is involuntary unemployment. The fact that the unemployed are lighter than the employed, even when we control for household fixed effects, suggests that they are not choosing this state.