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The impact of income on the weight of elderly Americans

✍ Scribed by John Cawley; John Moran; Kosali Simon

Publisher
John Wiley and Sons
Year
2009
Tongue
English
Weight
169 KB
Volume
19
Category
Article
ISSN
1057-9230

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✦ Synopsis

Abstract

This paper estimates the impact of income on the body weight and clinical weight classification of elderly Americans using a natural experiment that led otherwise identical retirees to receive significantly different Social Security payments based on their year of birth. We estimate models of instrumental variables using data from the National Health Interview Surveys and find no significant effect of income on weight. The confidence intervals rule out even moderate effects of income on weight and on the probability of being underweight or obese, especially for men. For example, they indicate that the income elasticity of body mass index is not greater in absolute value than 0.06 for men or 0.14 for women. Copyright Β© 2009 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

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