Body Size, Skills, and Income: Evidence From 150,000 Teenage Siblings

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 adul...

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Volume:	51
Main Author:	Petter Lundborg Paul Nystedt Dan-Olof Rooth
Format:	Journal Article
Language:	English
Place of publication:	Boston Springer 01.10.2014 Springer US SPRINGER
published in:	Demography Vol. 51; no. 5; pp. 1573 - 1596
ORCID:	0000-0001-8887-5677
Data of publication:	20141001
ISSN:	0070-3370 1533-7790 1533-7790
EISSN:	1533-7790
Discipline:	Economics
Subjects:	Obesity Body mass index Body size Underweight Labor markets Adolescents Age Thinking skills INCOME AND OCCUPATIONS Overweight Siblings Population Economics Demography Discrimination Skills Geography (general) Social Sciences, general Sociology, general Earnings Medicine/Public Health, general Social Sciences Body Mass Index Income - statistics & numerical data Obesity - psychology United States Humans Male United Kingdom Cognition Socioeconomic Factors Sweden Adolescent Adult Female Overweight - psychology Overweight - economics Body Weights and Measures Obesity - economics Index Medicus Hälsovetenskap Health Care Service and Management, Health Policy and Services and Health Economy Medical and Health Sciences Medicin och hälsovetenskap Hälso- och sjukvårdsorganisation, hälsopolitik och hälsoekonomi Health Sciences Obesity YOUNG ADULTHOOD MASS INDEX FOLLOW-UP HEIGHT TRENDS Overweight LABOR-MARKET OUTCOMES CHILD HEALTH Discrimination Skills Earnings WEIGHT
Online Access:	Fulltext
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