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Author: Johar, Meliyanni
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Johar, Meliyanni Katayama, Hajime |
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Quantile Regression Analysis of Body Mass and Wages Health Economics 21,5 (May 2012): 597-611. Also: http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/hec.1736/abstract Cohort(s): NLSY79 Publisher: Wiley Online Keyword(s): Body Mass Index (BMI); Endogeneity; Ethnic Differences; Gender Differences; Racial Differences; Social Capital; Wage Determination; Wage Differentials; Wages Permission to reprint the abstract has not been received from the publisher. Using the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth 1979, we explore the relationship between body mass and wages. We use quantile regression to provide a broad description of the relationship across the wage distribution. We also allow the relationship to vary by the degree of social skills involved in different jobs. Our results find that for female workers body mass and wages are negatively correlated at all points in their wage distribution. The strength of the relationship is larger at higher-wage levels. For male workers, the relationship is relatively constant across wage distribution but heterogeneous across ethnic groups. When controlling for the endogeneity of body mass, we find that additional body mass has a negative causal impact on the wages of white females earning more than the median wages and of white males around the median wages. Among these workers, the wage penalties are larger for those employed in jobs that require extensive social skills. These findings may suggest that labor markets reward white workers for good physical shape differently, depending on the level of wages and the type of job a worker has. Copyright © 2011 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd. |
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Johar, Meliyanni and Hajime Katayama. "Quantile Regression Analysis of Body Mass and Wages." Health Economics 21,5 (May 2012): 597-611.
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Johar, Meliyanni Truong, Jeffrey |
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Direct and Indirect Effect of Depression in Adolescence on Adult Wages Applied Economics 46,36 (December 2014): 4431-4444. Also: http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/00036846.2014.962227#.VFjpSWN2Rlc Cohort(s): NLSY97 Publisher: Taylor & Francis Keyword(s): Adolescent Health; Depression (see also CESD); Educational Attainment; Health, Mental/Psychological; Labor Market Outcomes; Wage Penalty/Career Penalty; Wages It is well recognized that a depressive mental state can persist for a long time, and this can adversely impact labour market outcomes. The aim of this article is to examine the direct association between depression status in late-teenage years and adult wages, as well as the indirect association, operating through accumulated education, experience and occupation choice. Using the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth 1997 data, we find adolescent depression is associated with a wage penalty of around 10-15%, but its mechanics are very different for males and females. For males, about three quarters of the wage penalty is through the direct channel, whilst for females the indirect effect channel is dominant. The indirect channel is driven by lower accumulated education, mostly because depression discourages further study post high school. These results are important because they imply that the association between adolescent depression and wages is stronger than has been estimated in previous cross-sectional studies. |
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Johar, Meliyanni and Jeffrey Truong. "Direct and Indirect Effect of Depression in Adolescence on Adult Wages." Applied Economics 46,36 (December 2014): 4431-4444.
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