We examine the vertical transmission of overweight drawing upon a sample of English children, both adopted and non …, indicating transmission through cultural factors. We find that, when both adoptive parents are overweight, the likelihood of an …

concluded that divorce has little effect on women's average household income. Employing an Abadie (2003) technique that allows … us to look at the impact of marital breakup throughout the income distribution, however, we find that divorce greatly … increases the probability that a woman lives in a household with income in the bottom quartile. While women partially offset the …