Pehkonen Jaakko, Viinikainen Jutta, Böckerman Petri, Pitkänen Niina, Lehtimäki Terho, Raitakari Olli
University of Jyväskylä, School of Business and Economics, Jyväskylä, Finland.
Labour Institute for Economic Research, Helsinki, Finland.
SSM Popul Health. 2019 Mar 5;7:100379. doi: 10.1016/j.ssmph.2019.100379. eCollection 2019 Apr.
This paper examines the relationship between health endowment and later-life outcomes in the labour market. The analysis is based on reduced-form models in which labour market outcomes are regressed on genetic variants related to the increased risk of cardiovascular diseases. We use linked Finnish data that have many strengths. Genetic risk scores constitute exogenous measures for health endowment, and accurate administrative tax records on earnings, employment and social income transfers provide a comprehensive account of an individual's long-term performance in the labour market. The results show that although the direction of an effect is generally consistent with theoretical reasoning, the effects of health endowment on outcomes are statistically weak, and the hypothesis of no effect can be rejected only in one case: genetic endowment related to obesity influences male earnings and employment in prime age. Due to the sample size (N = 1651), the results should be interpreted with caution and should be confirmed in larger samples and in other institutional settings.
本文考察了健康禀赋与劳动力市场晚年结果之间的关系。分析基于简化形式模型，其中劳动力市场结果被回归到与心血管疾病风险增加相关的基因变异上。我们使用了具有诸多优势的芬兰关联数据。基因风险评分构成了健康禀赋的外生指标，而关于收入、就业和社会收入转移的准确行政税务记录全面反映了个人在劳动力市场的长期表现。结果表明，尽管效应方向总体上与理论推理一致，但健康禀赋对结果的影响在统计上较弱，且仅在一种情况下可以拒绝无效应假设：与肥胖相关的基因禀赋会影响男性黄金年龄的收入和就业。由于样本量（N = 1651），结果应谨慎解读，并且应在更大样本和其他制度背景下得到证实。
