Fat spouses and hours of work: are body and Pareto weights correlated?

Table 8 SUR of log annual hours of work of husbands and wives on log own BMI and log spousal BMI

	Log(Husband’s hours)	Log(Wife’s hours)
Panel I. Individual and household characteristics
Log(Wife’s BMI)	−0.054^*	0.111^***
	(0.029)	(0.042)
Log(Husband’s BMI)	0.098^***	−0.063
	(0.035)	(0.051)
Panel II. Individual, household and spousal characteristics
Log(Wife’s BMI)	−0.074^***	0.081^*
	(0.029)	(0.042)
Log(Husband’s BMI)	0.097^***	−0.052
	(0.035)	(0.051)
N	2,025

Note: Regressions, which are simultaneously estimated, include state and year fixed effects, individual (age, log-hourly wage, completed years of education, and a good health status indicator) and household characteristics (household non-labor income, food ratio, number of children and a recent pregnancy indicator. In addition, husband’s (wife’s) regression includes a husband’s (wife’s) sedentary-job type indicator. Spousal characteristics: age, log-hourly wage, completed years of education, and a good health status indicator. Standard errors in parentheses.
^*** p-value< 0.01, ^** p-value< 0.05, ^* p-value< 0.1.