The impact of diabetes on employment in Mexico

Till Seuring; Yevgeniy Goryakin; Marc Suhrcke

doi:10.1016/j.ehb.2015.04.002

The impact of diabetes on employment in Mexico

Till Seuring
, Yevgeniy Goryakin
, Marc Suhrcke

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Abstract

This study explores the impact of diabetes on employment in Mexico using data from the Mexican Family Life Survey (MxFLS) (2005), taking into account the possible endogeneity of diabetes via an instrumental variable estimation strategy. We find that diabetes significantly decreases employment probabilities for men by about 10 percentage points (p

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	85-100
Number of pages	16
Journal	Economics and Human Biology
Volume	18
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ehb.2015.04.002
Publication status	Published - 1 May 2015

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SDG 3 Good Health and Well-being

Keywords

Diabetes
Employment
Instrumental variable
Mexico

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