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The effect of body weight on adolescent sexual activity

✍ Scribed by Joseph J. Sabia; Daniel I. Rees

Publisher: John Wiley and Sons
Year: 2010
Tongue: English
Weight: 166 KB
Volume: 20
Category: Article
ISSN: 1057-9230
DOI: 10.1002/hec.1674

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✦ Synopsis

Recent research suggests that overweight females suffer penalties in the labor and marriage markets, while overweight males do not. This study explores whether similar gender differences in the effect of body weight exist in what Cawley et al. (2006) labeled 'the adolescent sex market'. Drawing on data from the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent Health, we use fixed effects and instrumental variables identification strategies to estimate the relationship between body weight and sexual activity. We find evidence that increased body weight lowers the probability that female adolescents become sexually active. In contrast, there is little evidence of a causal relationship between body weight and sexual activity for male adolescents.

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