Health Insurance Pooling Between Thin and Obese in Europe

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Abstract: Numerous studies have found that obese workers are paid lower wages than the nonobese, even when controlling for skill level and productivity. Bhattacharya and Bundorf (2009) find that in the United States, this wage differential is only significant in jobs that provide health insurance to their employees and that this wage differential largely results from the increased cost of insuring obese workers. I examine European data from the Survey on Health Retirement and Aging in Europe (SHARE) to determine whether obese workers are paid lower wages than the non-obese, even where the majority of health insurance is provided by the state. I find that there is no significant wage differential between the obese and non-obese in Europe as a whole and that to the extent that wage differentials exist in individual countries, these are highly correlated with the prevalence of employer-provided health insurance in those countries.

Type of resource	text
Date created	June 2011

Author	Mullen, Cameron
Primary advisor	Bhattacharya, Jayanta
Degree granting institution	Stanford University, Department of Economics

Subject	Stanford Department of Economics
Subject	Obesity
Subject	Health Insurance
Subject	Insurance Pooling
Subject	Europe
Subject	Survey on Health Retirement and Aging in Europe
Genre	Thesis

Location	https://purl.stanford.edu/kp960bj7486

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Preferred Citation: Mullen, Cameron. (2011). Health Insurance Pooling Between Thin and Obese in Europe. Stanford Digital Repository. Available at: https://purl.stanford.edu/kp960bj7486

Stanford University, Department of Economics, Honors Theses

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