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Obesity and its Impact on Job Quality
By Kelly Lessard
This study explores the relationship between body mass and job quality in the United States labor force using five variables to represent job quality: hourly wage, training in the past year, desire for training, expectations for success, and job satisfaction. I use the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth 1979 data from 1994 to calculate BMI and assess the job quality indicators. Like past research, I find BMI is negatively associated with wages for the obese population, most significantly for women. Women also suffer a greater body mass penalty for job training and demonstrate lower job satisfaction at a higher BMI.
Advisor: Alison Hagy, Tracy Falba | JEL Codes: J7, J31, J71 | Tagged: BMI, Job Quality, Labor Productivity, Obesity