Long work hours and health in China |
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| Institution: | 1. Institute of Health Policy and Management, College of Public Health, National Taiwan University, Taiwan;2. Department of Environmental and Occupational Medicine, National Taiwan University Hospital, Taiwan;3. Department of Internal Medicine, National Taiwan University Hospital, Taiwan;1. Institute for Health Care & Public Management, University of Hohenheim, 70599 Stuttgart, Germany;2. School of International Economics and Trade, Shanghai Finance University, China;3. Global Food Studies, Faculty of the Professions, University of Adelaide, Australia;4. IZA, Germany;1. Seoul National University, Republic of Korea;2. IZA, Germany;3. Korea Culture & Tourism Institute, Republic of Korea |
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| Abstract: | Using several waves of the China Health and Nutrition Survey (CHNS), this study analyzes the effect of long work hours on health and lifestyles in a sample of 18- to 65-year-old Chinese workers. Although working long hours does significantly increase the probabilities of high blood pressure and poorer reported health, the effects are small. Also small are the negative effects of long work hours on sleep time, fat intake, and the probabilities of sports participation or watching TV. We find no positive association between work time and different measures of obesity and no evidence of any association with calorie intake, food preparation and cooking time, or the sedentary activities of reading, writing, or drawing. In general, after controlling for a rich set of covariates and unobserved individual heterogeneity, we find little evidence that long work hours affect either the health or lifestyles of Chinese workers. |
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