扩大钱包和腰围:家庭收入对符合劳动所得税抵免条件的男女体重指数的影响

Maximilian D. Schmeiser
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不断上升的肥胖率已经达到流行病的程度,现在是美国面临的最严重的公共卫生挑战之一。然而,这种增长的根本原因尚不清楚。本文利用1979年全国青年纵向调查的数据,研究了家庭收入变化对身体质量指数(BMI)和肥胖的影响。它通过在低收入女性和男性样本中使用家庭收入的外生变化来做到这一点。这种外生变化是从他们的家庭收入与州和联邦劳动所得税抵免(EITC)计划福利的慷慨程度的相关性中获得的。研究发现,收入显著提高了符合eitc标准的女性的BMI和肥胖概率,而对符合eitc标准的男性没有明显的影响。结果表明,从1990年到2002年,实际家庭收入的增加解释了样本女性BMI增加的10%到21%,以及肥胖患病率增加的23%到29%。
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Expanding Wallets and Waistlines: The Impact of Family Income on the BMI of Women and Men Eligible for the Earned Income Tax Credit
The rising rate of obesity has reached epidemic proportions and is now one of the most serious public health challenges facing the US. However, the underlying causes for this increase are unclear. This paper examines the effect of family income changes on body mass index (BMI) and obesity using data from the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth 1979 cohort. It does so by using exogenous variation in family income in a sample of low-income women and men. This exogenous variation is obtained from the correlation of their family income with the generosity of state and federal Earned Income Tax Credit (EITC) program benefits. Income is found to significantly raise the BMI and probability of being obese for women with EITC-eligible earnings, and have no appreciable effect for men with EITC-eligible earnings. The results imply that the increase in real family income from 1990 to 2002 explains between 10 and 21% of the increase in sample women's BMI and between 23 and 29% of their increased obesity prevalence.
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