Wages and Weight in Europe: Evidence Using IV Quantile Treatment Effect Model

Posted: 21 Jun 2007

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Noemi Pace

University of Rome "Tor Vergata"; Stanford University - CHP-PCOR

Vincenzo Atella

University of Rome Tor Vergata - Centre for International Studies on Economic Growth (CEIS); Department of Economics and Finance; University of Rome Tor Vergata - Faculty of Economics

Daniela Vuri

University of Rome Tor Vergata; IZA Institute of Labor Economics; CESifo (Center for Economic Studies and Ifo Institute for Economic Research)

Date Written: April 24, 2007

Abstract

The aim of this research is to investigate the relationship between obesity and wages, using data for nine countries from the European Community Household Panel (ECHP) over the period 1998-2001. We improve upon the existing literature by adopting an Instrumental Variable Quantile Regression (IVQR) model to characterize the heterogeneous impact of obesity at different points of the wage distribution. Our results show that i) the evidence obtained from mean regression and pooled analysis hides a significant amount of heterogeneity as the relationship between obesity and wages differs across countries and wages quantiles and ii)cultural, environmental or institutional settings do not seem to be able to explain differences among countries.

Keywords: Quantile Treatment Effect, obesity, wages, endogeneity

JEL Classification: C12, C21, C23, I10, I18

Suggested Citation

Pace, Noemi and Pace, Noemi and Atella, Vincenzo and Vuri, Daniela, Wages and Weight in Europe: Evidence Using IV Quantile Treatment Effect Model (April 24, 2007). iHEA 2007 6th World Congress: Explorations in Health Economics Paper, Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=995070

Noemi Pace

University of Rome "Tor Vergata" ( email )

Via di Tor Vergata
Rome, Lazio 00133
Italy

Stanford University - CHP-PCOR ( email )

Stanford, CA 94305
United States

Vincenzo Atella (Contact Author)

University of Rome Tor Vergata - Centre for International Studies on Economic Growth (CEIS) ( email )

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Department of Economics and Finance ( email )

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Daniela Vuri

University of Rome Tor Vergata ( email )

Via di Tor Vergata
Rome, Lazio 00133
Italy

IZA Institute of Labor Economics

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Bonn, D-53072
Germany

CESifo (Center for Economic Studies and Ifo Institute for Economic Research)

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Munich, DE-81679
Germany

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