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Article: An Instrumental Variables Approach to Measuring the Effect of Body Weight on Employment Disability.
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- Health Services Research
- Article date:
- December 1, 2000
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Objective. To measure the effect of body weight on employment disability.
Data Sources. Female respondents to the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth (NLSY), a nationally representative sample of American youth, surveyed from 1979 to 1998, merged with data from the child sample of the NLSY.
Study Design. A series of probit models and probit models with instrumental variables is estimated with the goal of measuring the effect of body weight on employment disability. The two outcomes of interest are whether a woman reports that her health limits the amount of work that she can do for pay, and whether she reports that her health limits the kind of work ...