| Title |
Body Size, Skills, and Income: Evidence From 150,000 Teenage Siblings
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| Published in |
Demography, September 2014
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| DOI | 10.1007/s13524-014-0325-6 |
| Pubmed ID | |
| Authors |
Petter Lundborg, Paul Nystedt, Dan-Olof Rooth |
| Abstract |
We provide new evidence on the long-run labor market penalty of teenage overweight and obesity using unique and large-scale data on 150,000 male siblings from the Swedish military enlistment. Our empirical analysis provides four important results. First, we provide the first evidence of a large adult male labor market penalty for being overweight or obese as a teenager. Second, we replicate this result using data from the United States and the United Kingdom. Third, we note a strikingly strong within-family relationship between body size and cognitive skills/noncognitive skills. Fourth, a large part of the estimated body-size penalty reflects lower skill acquisition among overweight and obese teenagers. Taken together, these results reinforce the importance of policy combating early-life obesity in order to reduce healthcare expenditures as well as poverty and inequalities later in life. |
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| United Kingdom | 8 | 25% |
| Egypt | 2 | 6% |
| Canada | 2 | 6% |
| United States | 2 | 6% |
| Italy | 1 | 3% |
| Denmark | 1 | 3% |
| Sweden | 1 | 3% |
| Australia | 1 | 3% |
| Unknown | 14 | 44% |
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| Members of the public | 24 | 75% |
| Practitioners (doctors, other healthcare professionals) | 3 | 9% |
| Scientists | 3 | 9% |
| Science communicators (journalists, bloggers, editors) | 2 | 6% |
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| United States | 3 | 3% |
| Korea, Republic of | 1 | 1% |
| Colombia | 1 | 1% |
| Unknown | 84 | 94% |
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| Student > Ph. D. Student | 16 | 18% |
| Student > Master | 14 | 16% |
| Student > Bachelor | 9 | 10% |
| Professor | 5 | 6% |
| Student > Doctoral Student | 5 | 6% |
| Other | 19 | 21% |
| Unknown | 21 | 24% |
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| Economics, Econometrics and Finance | 19 | 21% |
| Medicine and Dentistry | 12 | 13% |
| Social Sciences | 10 | 11% |
| Psychology | 8 | 9% |
| Nursing and Health Professions | 7 | 8% |
| Other | 12 | 13% |
| Unknown | 21 | 24% |
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