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Body Size, Skills, and Income : Evidence From 150,000 Teenage Siblings
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- Lundborg, Petter (författare)
- Lund University,Lunds universitet,Centrum för ekonomisk demografi,Ekonomihögskolan,Nationalekonomiska institutionen,Centre for Economic Demography,Lund University School of Economics and Management, LUSEM,Department of Economics,Lund University School of Economics and Management, LUSEM
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- Nystedt, Paul (författare)
- Lund University,Lunds universitet,Jönköping University,Internationella Handelshögskolan,The Jönköping Academy for Improvement of Health and Welfare,Institutionen för hälsovetenskaper,Medicinska fakulteten,Department of Health Sciences,Faculty of Medicine
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- Rooth, Dan-Olof (författare)
- Lund University,Lunds universitet,Linnéuniversitetet,Institutionen för nationalekonomi och statistik (NS),Centre for Economic Demography, and HEP, Lund University, Lund, Sweden,Linnaeus University Centre for Discrimination and Integration Studies,Centrum för ekonomisk demografi,Ekonomihögskolan,Lund University School of Economics and Management, LUSEM
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- 2014-09-09
- 2014
- Engelska.
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Ingår i: Demography. - : Duke University Press. - 0070-3370 .- 1533-7790. ; 51:5, s. 1573-1596
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Abstract
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- We provide new evidence on the long-run labor market penalty of teenage overweight and obesity using unique and large-scale data on 150,000 male siblings from the Swedish military enlistment. Our empirical analysis provides four important results. First, we provide the first evidence of a large adult male labor market penalty for being overweight or obese as a teenager. Second, we replicate this result using data from the United States and the United Kingdom. Third, we note a strikingly strong within-family relationship between body size and cognitive skills/noncognitive skills. Fourth, a large part of the estimated body-size penalty reflects lower skill acquisition among overweight and obese teenagers. Taken together, these results reinforce the importance of policy combating early-life obesity in order to reduce healthcare expenditures as well as poverty and inequalities later in life.
Ämnesord
- SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP -- Ekonomi och näringsliv (hsv//swe)
- SOCIAL SCIENCES -- Economics and Business (hsv//eng)
- MEDICIN OCH HÄLSOVETENSKAP -- Hälsovetenskap -- Hälso- och sjukvårdsorganisation, hälsopolitik och hälsoekonomi (hsv//swe)
- MEDICAL AND HEALTH SCIENCES -- Health Sciences -- Health Care Service and Management, Health Policy and Services and Health Economy (hsv//eng)
Nyckelord
- Obesity
- Overweight
- Discrimination
- Earnings
- Skills
- Economy
- Ekonomi
- Obesity
- Overweight
- Discrimination
- Earnings
- Skills
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- art (ämneskategori)
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