Income has a direct impact on our utility as well as an indirect impact through the goods, services and life events it … allows us to purchase. The indirect effect of income is not properly accounted for in existing research that uses measures of … cardinal utility for economic analysis. We propose a new approach for appropriately attributing the full effects of income on …

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 …