| 来源类型 | Working Paper
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| 规范类型 | 报告
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| DOI | 10.3386/w13879
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| 来源ID | Working Paper 13879
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| The Economic Value of Teeth |
| Sherry Glied; Matthew Neidell
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| 发表日期 | 2008-03-14
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| 出版年 | 2008
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| 语种 | 英语
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| 摘要 | Healthy teeth are a vital and visible component of general well-being, but there is little systematic evidence to demonstrate their economic value. In this paper, we examine one element of that value, the effect of oral health on labor market outcomes, by exploiting variation in access to fluoridated water during childhood. The politics surrounding the adoption of water fluoridation by local water districts suggests exposure to fluoride during childhood is exogenous to other factors affecting earnings. We find that women who resided in communities with fluoridated water during childhood earn approximately 4% more than women who did not, but we find no effect of fluoridation for men. Furthermore, the effect is almost exclusively concentrated amongst women from families of low socioeconomic status. We find little evidence to support occupational sorting, statistical discrimination, and productivity as potential channels of these effects, suggesting consumer and employer discrimination are the likely driving factors whereby oral health affects earnings |
| 主题 | Health, Education, and Welfare
; Health
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| URL | https://www.nber.org/papers/w13879
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| 来源智库 | National Bureau of Economic Research (United States)
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| 资源类型 | 智库出版物
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| 条目标识符 | http://119.78.100.153/handle/2XGU8XDN/571553
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Sherry Glied,Matthew Neidell. The Economic Value of Teeth. 2008.
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