Who pays for the medical costs of obesity? New evidence from the employer mandate
利用《平价医疗法案》雇主强制保险条款带来的变化，发现肥胖工人的医疗支出较小，其工资可能被压低以抵消这些成本，但效果通常不显著。
Theory suggests that the medical costs of obesity should be passed on to obese workers, in the form of lower wages, whenever health coverage is a part of employee compensation. In contrast to existing work on this topic, this paper illustrates that the medical expenditures caused by obesity among working adults are relatively small and that wage offsets should therefore be difficult to detect. The paper supports this claim by exploiting the variation provided by the Affordable Care Act's employer mandate. Findings suggest that obese workers tend to bear the approximate cost of their medical expenditures via lower wages. However, the observed effects are often insignificantly different from zero.