TY - JOUR
T1 - Is it the Way You Live or the Job You Have? Health Effects of Lifestyles and Working Conditions
AU - Cottini, Elena
AU - Ghinetti, Paolo
AU - Ghinetti, Paolo Carlo
PY - 2017
Y1 - 2017
N2 - This paper investigates the role of lifestyles (smoking, drinking and obesity) and working conditions (physical hazards, no support from colleagues, job worries and repetitive work) on health. Three alternative systems of simultaneous multivariate probit equations are estimated, one for each health measure: An indicator of selfassessed health, an indicator of physical health, and an indicator of work-related mental health problems, using Danish data for 2000 and 2005. We find that while lifestyles are significant determinants of self-Assessed health, they play a minor role for our indicators of physical health and mental health. The effect of lifestyles seems to be dominated by the effect of adverse working conditions, which significantly worsen health. This result is robust for all health dimensions considered.
AB - This paper investigates the role of lifestyles (smoking, drinking and obesity) and working conditions (physical hazards, no support from colleagues, job worries and repetitive work) on health. Three alternative systems of simultaneous multivariate probit equations are estimated, one for each health measure: An indicator of selfassessed health, an indicator of physical health, and an indicator of work-related mental health problems, using Danish data for 2000 and 2005. We find that while lifestyles are significant determinants of self-Assessed health, they play a minor role for our indicators of physical health and mental health. The effect of lifestyles seems to be dominated by the effect of adverse working conditions, which significantly worsen health. This result is robust for all health dimensions considered.
KW - 2001
KW - Economics and Econometrics
KW - Health
KW - Lifestyles
KW - Simultaneous probit estimation
KW - Working conditions
KW - 2001
KW - Economics and Econometrics
KW - Health
KW - Lifestyles
KW - Simultaneous probit estimation
KW - Working conditions
UR - http://hdl.handle.net/10807/115367
UR - http://www.degruyter.com/view/j/bejeap
U2 - 10.1515/bejeap-2016-0222
DO - 10.1515/bejeap-2016-0222
M3 - Article
SN - 1935-1682
VL - 17
SP - 1
EP - 10
JO - THE B.E. JOURNAL OF ECONOMIC ANALYSIS & POLICY
JF - THE B.E. JOURNAL OF ECONOMIC ANALYSIS & POLICY
ER -