肥胖对消费者破产的影响。

The impact of obesity on consumer bankruptcy.

作者信息

Guettabi Mouhcine, Munasib Abdul

机构信息

Institute of Social and Economic Research, College of Business and Public Policy, University of Alaska Anchorage, 3211 Providence Drive, Anchorage, AK 99508-8180, United States.

Department of Agricultural and Applied Economics, University of Georgia, 213 Stuckey Building, Griffin, GA, United States.

出版信息

Econ Hum Biol. 2015 Apr;17:208-24. doi: 10.1016/j.ehb.2014.11.003. Epub 2014 Nov 26.

DOI:10.1016/j.ehb.2014.11.003

PMID:25548081

Abstract

Over the last two decades, both bankruptcy and obesity rates in the U.S. have seen a steady rise. As obesity is one of the leading causes of medical and morbidity related economic costs, its influence on personal bankruptcy is analyzed in this study. Using the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth 1979, we employ a duration model to investigate the relative importance of obesity on the timing of bankruptcy. Even after accounting for possible endogeneity of BMI and controlling for a wide variety of individual and aggregate-level confounding factors, being obese puts one at a greater risk of filing for bankruptcy.

摘要

在过去二十年中，美国的破产率和肥胖率都在稳步上升。由于肥胖是与医疗和发病率相关的经济成本的主要原因之一，本研究分析了肥胖对个人破产的影响。利用1979年全国青年纵向调查，我们采用持续时间模型来研究肥胖对破产时机的相对重要性。即使在考虑了BMI可能存在的内生性并控制了各种个体和总体层面的混杂因素之后，肥胖仍会使一个人面临更高的破产申请风险。