Alternative measures of body composition and wage premium: New evidence from Indonesia

This paper examines the relationship between body composition and earnings in a developing country setting. We use body mass index, waist circumference and hip circumference. Exploiting the panel structure of our longitudinal survey, we find that along with BMI, waist circumference is related to hig...

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Autores principales: Ahsan, Md Nazmul, Böckerman, Petri
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Public Library of Science 2019
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6688822/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31398206
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0219438
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spelling pubmed-66888222019-08-15 Alternative measures of body composition and wage premium: New evidence from Indonesia Ahsan, Md Nazmul Böckerman, Petri PLoS One Research Article This paper examines the relationship between body composition and earnings in a developing country setting. We use body mass index, waist circumference and hip circumference. Exploiting the panel structure of our longitudinal survey, we find that along with BMI, waist circumference is related to higher earnings in Indonesia. Public Library of Science 2019-08-09 /pmc/articles/PMC6688822/ /pubmed/31398206 http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0219438 Text en © 2019 Ahsan, Böckerman http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) , which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
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title_short Alternative measures of body composition and wage premium: New evidence from Indonesia
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