| 来源类型 | Working Paper |
| 规范类型 | 报告 |
| DOI | 10.3386/w15256 |
| 来源ID | Working Paper 15256 |
| Estimating Causal Effects of Early Occupational Choice on Later Health: Evidence Using the PSID | |
| Jason M. Fletcher; Jody L. Sindelar | |
| 发表日期 | 2009-08-13 |
| 出版年 | 2009 |
| 语种 | 英语 |
| 摘要 | In this paper, we provide some of the first empirical evidence of whether early occupational choices are associated with lasting effects on health status, affecting individuals as they age. We take advantage of data on occupational histories available in the Panel Study of Income Dynamics (PSID) to examine this issue. To the PSID data, we merge historical Census data that reflect the labor market conditions when each individual in the PSID made his first occupational choice. These data on labor market conditions (e.g. state-level share of blue collar workers) allow us to instrument for occupational choice in order to alleviate endogeneity bias. We use parental occupation as additional instruments. Since our instruments may have indirect effects on later health, we also control for respondent's pre-labor market health, education and several family and state background characteristics in order to make the instruments more plausibly excludable. We find substantial evidence that a blue collar occupation at labor force entry is associated with decrements to later health status, ceteris paribus. These health effects are larger after controlling for endogeneity and are similar across sets of instruments. We also find differences in the effects of occupation by gender, race, and age. |
| 主题 | Health, Education, and Welfare ; Health |
| URL | https://www.nber.org/papers/w15256 |
| 来源智库 | National Bureau of Economic Research (United States) |
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| 资源类型 | 智库出版物 |
| 条目标识符 | http://119.78.100.153/handle/2XGU8XDN/572932 |
| 推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714 | Jason M. Fletcher,Jody L. Sindelar. Estimating Causal Effects of Early Occupational Choice on Later Health: Evidence Using the PSID. 2009. |
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