title: Health, obesity, and earnings.
abstract: Published reports and economic theory suggest that a worker's earnings may be affected by his degree of obesity. The purpose of this research was to estimate the size of such an effect. The earnings-obesity hypothesis was tested with data from the National Longitudinal Survey of Mature Men. Results of the test suggest that, for members of that sample, there is no earnings-depressant effect due to obesity.
mesh_terms: D000368:Aged; D004651:Employment; D006304:Health Status; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D008962:Models, Theoretical; D009765:Obesity / Q000191:economics*; D012456:Salaries and Fringe Benefits; D012959:Socioeconomic Factors; D014481:United States