Do people become healthier after being promoted?

Christopher J. Boyce and Andrew Oswald
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Christopher J. Boyce: PSE - Paris-Jourdan Sciences Economiques - ENS-PSL - École normale supérieure - Paris - PSL - Université Paris Sciences et Lettres - INRA - Institut National de la Recherche Agronomique - EHESS - École des hautes études en sciences sociales - ENPC - École des Ponts ParisTech - CNRS - Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, PSE - Paris School of Economics - UP1 - Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne - ENS-PSL - École normale supérieure - Paris - PSL - Université Paris Sciences et Lettres - EHESS - École des hautes études en sciences sociales - ENPC - École des Ponts ParisTech - CNRS - Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique - INRAE - Institut National de Recherche pour l’Agriculture, l’Alimentation et l’Environnement

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Abstract: This paper examines the hypothesis that greater job status makes a person healthier. It begins by successfully replicating the well-known cross-section association between health and job seniority. Then, however, it turns to longitudinal patterns. Worryingly for the hypothesis, the data-on a large sample of randomly selected British workers through time-suggest that people who start with good health go on later to be promoted. The paper can find relatively little evidence that health improves after promotion. In fact, promoted individuals suffer a significant deterioration in their psychological well-being (on a standard General Health Questionnaire (GHQ) mental ill-health measure).

Keywords: Health; Whitehall studies; GHQ; Locus of control; Job satisfaction; Mortality; Status (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2011-06
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Published in Health Economics, 2011, 21 (5), pp.580-596. ⟨10.1002/hec.1734⟩

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Journal Article: Do people become healthier after being promoted? (2012)
Working Paper: Do people become healthier after being promoted? (2011)
Working Paper: Do People Become Healthier after Being Promoted? (2008)
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DOI: 10.1002/hec.1734

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