The impact of diabetes on employment: genetic IVs in a bivariate probit
利用遗传工具变量处理糖尿病的内生性，发现若忽视内生性会高估糖尿病对女性就业的负面影响、低估对男性的影响，对遗传易感人群的政策制定有参考价值。
Diabetes has been shown to have a detrimental impact on employment and labor market productivity, which results in lost work days and higher mortality/disability. This study utilizes data from the Border Epidemiologic Study on Aging to analyze the endogeneity of diabetes in an employment model. We use family history of diabetes as genetic instrumental variables. We show that assuming that diabetes is an exogenous variable results in an overestimate (underestimate) of the negative impact of diabetes on female (male) employment. Our results are particularly relevant in the case of populations where genetic predisposition has an important role in the etiology of diabetes.