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Article: The effect of body weight on adolescent academic performance.
- Article from:
- Southern Economic Journal
- Article date:
- April 1, 2007
- Author:
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1. Introduction
A recent study by Cawley (2004) found evidence of a negative relationship between body weight and wages for white females, even after controlling for the endogeneity of body weight. If obesity causes white females' wages to be lower, this may reflect the presence of workplace discrimination against obese women or lower productivity levels for these workers, while the results presented in Cawley (2004) suggest that obesity may have an important negative economic effect. Our current understanding of the adverse economic impact of obesity may be understated if obesity also negatively affects early human capital accumulation. If increased body weight ...
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