Is it the Way You Live or the Job You Have? Health Effects of Lifestyles and Working Conditions

Elena Cottini, Paolo Ghinetti*, Paolo Carlo Ghinetti*

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Abstract

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.
Lingua originaleEnglish
pagine (da-a)1-10
Numero di pagine10
RivistaTHE B.E. JOURNAL OF ECONOMIC ANALYSIS & POLICY
Volume17
DOI
Stato di pubblicazionePubblicato - 2017

Keywords

  • 2001
  • Economics and Econometrics
  • Health
  • Lifestyles
  • Simultaneous probit estimation
  • Working conditions

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