Re: HERC Health Economics Seminar - October 20 - REGISTER NOW!! - Untangling the Direct and Indirect Effects of Body Mass Dynamics on Earnings

On Oct 14, 2010 8:49 AM, "HSR&D Cyber Seminars" <cyberseminar@va.gov> wrote:
> HERC Health Economics Seminar Wednesday, October 20 - Untangling the Direct and Indirect Effects of Body Mass Dynamics on Earnings
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> By Donna Gilleskie, Wednesday, October 20, 2:00pm - 3:15pm ET In this study we aim to assess the effect of body mass on earnings. It has been shown that the body mass of white females is negatively correlated with wages (Cawley, 2004). We argue that this observed correlation may capture the influence of body mass on life-cycle decisions such as educational attainment, work experience, marital status, and fertility, which, in turn, determine wages. Similarly, these behaviors may impact body mass over the life cycle. Admittedly, body mass may still have an observed direct impact on wages if weight affects productivity on the job (which, in most data sets, is immeasurable) or if discrimination (also immeasurable) exists. To disentangle these direct and indirect effects we propose to model wages of individuals while jointly explaining accumulation of education and work experience,
> the decisions to work, to marry, and to have children, and the evolution of body mass over
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> Register for the session on October 20: http://www.hsrd.research.va.gov/for_researchers/cyber_seminars/registration.cfm?SessionID=301&CEU=0
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> This is a HERC Health Economics Seminar Presentation. For more information on these and other HSR&D Cyber Seminars go to http://www.hsrd.research.va.gov/for_researchers/cyber_seminars.
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