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Dastan, Ilker |
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Labor Market Effects of Obesity, Smoking, and Alcohol Use Ph.D. Dissertation, Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, October 2010. Also: http://hdl.rutgers.edu/1782.1/rucore10001600001.ETD.000056285 Cohort(s): NLSY79 Publisher: State University of New Jersey - New Brunswick Keyword(s): Alcohol Use; Cigarette Use (see Smoking); Endogeneity; Gender Differences; Hausman-Taylor Instrumental Variable (HTIV); Modeling, Probit; Obesity; Smoking (see Cigarette Use); Unemployment, Youth; Wages, Young Men Permission to reprint the abstract has not been received from the publisher. This dissertation analyzes the joint effects of obesity, smoking, and binge drinking on wages and on unemployment by using the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth data set. The main objective of this study is to show that the effects of these behaviors on wages and unemployment may not be measured accurately in analyses that consider only one or two since these behaviors are correlated or tend to cluster. My results illustrate that failing to include one or more of the health behaviors in wage or unemployment regression would lead to an underestimation of the impact of being obese and an overestimation of the effect of binge drinking for both genders. However, when endogeneity is addressed by employing the Hausman-Taylor instrumental variable (HTIV) method in wage analysis and the multivariate probit method in unemployment analysis, I find that the estimated parameters of obesity or binge drinking are not statistically significantly different whether these behaviors are considered individually or simultaneously. |
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Dastan, Ilker. Labor Market Effects of Obesity, Smoking, and Alcohol Use. Ph.D. Dissertation, Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, October 2010.. |