Active commuting and the health of workers

Research has shown that commuting is related to the health of workers, and that mode choice may have differential effects on this relationship. We analyze the relationship between commuting by different modes of transport and the health status reported by US workers, using the 2014-2016 Eating and H...

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Autores principales: Echeverría, Lucía, Gimenez-Nadal, J. Ignacio, Molina, José Alberto
Formato: Informe técnico publishedVersion
Lenguaje:Inglés
Publicado: IZA 2022
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Commuting
Salud
Trabajadores
Medios de Transporte
Acceso en línea:http://nulan.mdp.edu.ar/id/eprint/3778/
http://nulan.mdp.edu.ar/id/eprint/3778/1/echeverria-etal-2022.pdf
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Nulan - Fac.Cs.Económicas (UNMdP) de Universidad Nacional de Mar del Plata (UNMdP)
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topic Commuting
Salud
Trabajadores
Medios de Transporte
spellingShingle Commuting
Salud
Trabajadores
Medios de Transporte
Echeverría, Lucía
Gimenez-Nadal, J. Ignacio
Molina, José Alberto
Active commuting and the health of workers
topic_facet Commuting
Salud
Trabajadores
Medios de Transporte
description Research has shown that commuting is related to the health of workers, and that mode choice may have differential effects on this relationship. We analyze the relationship between commuting by different modes of transport and the health status reported by US workers, using the 2014-2016 Eating and Health (EH) Module of the American Time Use Survey (ATUS). We estimate Ordinary Least Squares models on a measure of subjective health, that is the self-reported assessment of individual general health status, and on the body mass index. We find that longer commutes by bicycle are significantly related to higher levels of subjective health and to lower body mass index, while commuting by walking is weakly related to both health measures. We test the robustness of our results to possible measurement errors in commuting times, to the exclusion of compensating factors, and to the estimation method. We additionally instrument individual use of bicycles with an indicator of individual green attitudes, based on the General Social Survey (GSS), and the results consistently show that individuals who commute longer by bicycle report better subjective health and lower body mass index. Our results may help policy makers in evaluating the importance of having infrastructures that facilitate the use of bicycles as a means of transport, boosting investment in these infrastructures, especially in large cities.
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Gimenez-Nadal, J. Ignacio
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Gimenez-Nadal, J. Ignacio
Molina, José Alberto
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title Active commuting and the health of workers
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url http://nulan.mdp.edu.ar/id/eprint/3778/
http://nulan.mdp.edu.ar/id/eprint/3778/1/echeverria-etal-2022.pdf
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