High Quality Nutrition in Childhoom and Wages in Early Adulthood

CDU:

330

Autor:

Calderon, María Cecilia

Autor secundario/Colaboradores:

Fernández, Gonzalo (Director de Tesis) 

Título:

High Quality Nutrition in Childhoom and Wages in Early Adulthood: A Two-Step Quantile Regression Approach From Guatemalan Workers

Nota general:

Establishing a causal relationship between health and productivity is not straightforward. On one hand, higher income individuals invest more in health: as their income grows, they invest in better diets and health care. On the other, if a worker is healthier and more energetic, then she will probably be more productive. This paper focuses on the second pathway and examines the effect of one dimension of health, height and body mass index (BMI), on wages. Data comes from a longitudinal study conducted in Guatemala, a low-income country, during 1969-1977 and followed-up in 2002-2004. The estimates suggest a very non-linear relationship between height, BMI and wages; however, the evidence is stronger for males than for females. While diminishing returns are operating at higher quantiles of the conditional wage distribution, increasing returns appear at lower quantiles, implying that height and BMI might have an increasing payoff for the poorer workers.

Temas:

 - TESIS  - GUATEMALA  - SALUD  - NUTRICIÓN  - NIÑOS 

Acceso en línea:

-  ;

Idioma:

Inglés

País:

Argentina

Lugar, editor y fecha:

La Plata : [s.n.], 2006

Páginas:

34 p.

Nota de tesis:

(Maestría en Economía)- Universidad Nacional de La Plata. Facultad de Ciencias Económicas. Departamento de Economía. 2007

Nivel Bibliográfico:

Monográfico

Tipo de documento:

Tesis

Acceso en línea:

- 

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