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GLP-1–Induced Weight Loss and the Female Obesity Penalty
October 5 @ 3:30 pm - 4:30 pm UTC
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About the Webinar:
GLP-1 medications generate large weight loss and may also alter social and economic outcomes. Using the Understanding America Study, I compare women starting GLP-1s for weight loss with matched women who would like to start a GLP-1 but have not. Single women’s marriage/cohabitation rates rise by 29 percentage points and employment among baseline non-employed women rises 27 percentage points after six or more quarters. Existing partnerships do not dissolve, and already-employed women show no upward job mobility. The pattern suggests that part of the female obesity penalty operates at new-match formation rather than only through health or incumbent productivity
Speaker:
Rebecca Diamond is the Martin Feldstein Professor of Economics at Harvard University. Her research focuses on housing markets, labor markets, cities, and economic inequality. She is particularly known for influential work on housing affordability, rent control, residential location choices and spatial inequality, as well as gender earnings gaps. She earned her PhD in Economics from Harvard and was previously a professor at Stanford University.
