voprstatВопросы статистикиVoprosy Statistiki2313-63832658-5499The Federal State Budgetary Institution "Scientific Research Institute for Socio-Economic Statistics of the Federal State Statistics Service" (Statistics Research Institute of Rosstat)10.34023/2313-6383-2025-32-1-51-63voprstat-1864Research ArticleСТАТИСТИКА В СОЦИАЛЬНО-ЭКОНОМИЧЕСКИХ ИССЛЕДОВАНИЯХSTATISTICS IN SOCIO-ECONOMIC STUDIESВлияние избыточного веса на заработную плату россиянThe Impact of Overweight on Wages of Russianshttps://orcid.org/0009-0001-3926-5693ДееваА. С.DeevaA. S.

Деева Анастасия Сергеевна – аспирант, Аспирантская школа по экономике; стажер-исследователь, Центр фундаментальных исследований, лаборатория экономических исследований общественного сектора.

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Anastasiia S. Deeva – Postgraduate Student, Doctoral School of Economics; Intern Researcher, Laboratory of Economic Research in Public Sector, Centre for Basic Studie.

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asgolubtsova@hse.ruНациональный исследовательский университет «Высшая школа экономики»РоссияNational Research University Higher School of EconomicsRussian Federation2025270220253215163Copyright © Деева А.С., 20252025Деева А.С.Deeva A.S.This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.https://voprstat.elpub.ru/jour/article/view/1864

В статье рассматривается влияние индекса массы тела (ИМТ) на величину заработной платы работников. Основная цель исследования – определить, существует ли на российском рынке труда дискриминация работников из-за избыточного веса, которая выражается в более низкой оплате труда лиц с высокими значениями ИМТ при прочих равных условиях.

Отличительной особенностью данного исследования является анализ результатов ежегодных репрезентативных опросов населения с применением методов регрессионного анализа, позволяющих учитывать потенциальную двустороннюю зависимость между ИМТ и заработной платой. Использовались данные объединенной выборки официально трудоустроенных респондентов РМЭЗ НИУ ВШЭ за период 2013–2022 гг. Чтобы решить проблему эндогенности, возникающей при исследовании взаимосвязи между ИМТ и заработной платой, и получить состоятельные оценки коэффициентов регрессий, в работе применен метод инструментальных переменных, основанный на свойстве гетероскедастичности остатков.

Исходя из полученных результатов, можно сформулировать вывод о том, что заработная плата у сотрудников с избыточным весом или ожирением значимо ниже, чем у работников с нормальным весом. Таким образом, величину индекса массы тела, наряду с другими социально-экономическими и демографическими характеристиками, можно рассматривать в качестве фактора, влияющего на оплату труда россиян.

This paper examines the impact of Body Mass Index (BMI) on individual earnings. The study aims to determine whether there is weight–wage discrimination against individuals with higher BMI levels in the Russian labor market, resulting in lower wages, all other things being equal. The distinctive feature of this study is that the author analyzed the results of representative annual population surveys using regression analysis methods, allowing control for potential reverse causality between BMI and wages. The research used a panel dataset of officially employed respondents from the Russian Longitudinal Monitoring Survey collected by HSE University (RLMS–HSE) from 2013 to 2022.

To address the endogeneity problem in studying the relationship between BMI and wages and to obtain consistent estimates of regression coefficients, the paper employs the instrumental variable (IV) method, which relies on the heteroscedasticity of residuals.

The findings indicate that the wages of overweight or obese workers are significantly lower than those of normal-weight employees. Thus, an individual's BMI, in addition to other socio-economic and demographic characteristics, can be considered a factor affecting the wages of Russians.

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