Marriage markets as explanation for why heavier people work more hours

Table 13 Effect of weight on employment probability: OLS and IV results for men and women with sibling

	Single			Married
	White	Black	Hispanic	White	Black	Hispanic
Panel A: OLS estimates for women
BMI	0.00265*** (2.907)	6.95e−05 (0.0665)	0.000702 (0.423)	0.00123 (0.910)	−0.00195 (−0.895)	−0.00353 (−1.143)
Panel B: IV estimates for women
BMI	0.00215 (0.737)	0.00330 (0.779)	−0.00408 (−0.678)	0.0145** (2.410)	−0.00439 (−0.490)	0.00351 (0.361)
Observations	8248	7623	2933	6965	1535	1410
Panel C: OLS estimates for men
BMI	−0.000240 (−0.259)	0.00368*** (2.728)	0.000806 (0.533)	−0.000133 (−0.131)	−2.14e−05 (−0.00715)	−0.00228 (−1.146)
Panel D: IV estimates for men
BMI	−0.00769* (−1.767)	0.00169 (0.322)	−0.0101* (−1.715)	−0.00367 (−0.660)	0.000727 (0.141)	−0.0156** (−2.404)
Observations	11,460	7932	4298	5219	1327	1243

Note 1: Control variables include work experience (quadratic), educational categories, dummies for whether the respondent believes in traditional gender roles, whether the respondent has any children, if the youngest child is below six, yearly age dummies, region of residence dummies, and year dummies. For married sample, additional controls include spouse’s age, educational categories, and annual income. Note 2: t-stats reported are based on standard errors clustered at the individual level
*** p < 0.01, ** p < 0.05, and * p < 0.10