The impact of diabetes on employment in Mexico
- Seuring, Till
- Goryakin, Yevgeniy
- Suhrcke, Marc
Publication date
May 2015
DOI Publisher
Elsevier BV ISSN
1570-677X Language
English Citation count (estimate)
8Abstract
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 (
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