% WARNING: This file may contain UTF-8 (unicode) characters. % While non-8-bit characters are officially unsupported in BibTeX, you % can use them with the biber backend of biblatex % usepackage[backend=biber]{biblatex} @techreport{NBERw15101, title = "Obesity, Self-esteem and Wages", author = "Mocan, Naci H and Tekin, Erdal", institution = "National Bureau of Economic Research", type = "Working Paper", series = "Working Paper Series", number = "15101", year = "2009", month = "June", doi = {10.3386/w15101}, URL = "http://www.nber.org/papers/w15101", abstract = {Obesity is associated with serious health problems, and it can generate adverse economic outcomes. We analyze a nationally-representative sample of young American adults to investigate the interplay between obesity, wages and self-esteem. Wages can be impacted directly by obesity, and they can be influenced by obesity indirectly through the channel of obesity to self-esteem to wages. We find that female wages are directly influenced by body weight, and self-esteem has an impact on wages in case of whites. Being overweight or obese has a negative impact on the self-esteem of females and of black males. The results suggest that obesity has the most significant impact on white women's wages.}, }