The impact of diabetes on employment in Mexico

Author: Aaronson, Agardh, Aguila, Angrist, Antillón, Arredondo, Barquera, Barquera, Barquera, Bastida, Basu, Baum, Bellamy, Brown, Brown, Chiburis, Denny, Drichoutis, Emran, Filmer, Hemminki, Herder, Hu, Huang, Huxley, International Diabetes Federation, Kelly, Knapp, Knaul, Latif, Lewbel, Lewbel, Lin, Maahs, Marc Suhrcke, Minor, Minor, Rivera, Rivera, Rubalcava, Salomon, Samb, Schroeter, Sicree, Staiger, Stevens, The Interact Consortium, Till Seuring, Vijan, Villalpando, Williams, Wooldridge, Yach, Yevgeniy Goryakin, Yu, Zhang
Publisher: Elsevier BV

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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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