price of fruit and vegetables in brine by 10% would decrease the prevalence of overweight and obesity by 24% and 33 … the distribution of Body Mass Index (BMI) in a sample of French adults. A dynamic choice model using standard assumptions … in Physiology is developed. It is shown that the slope of the price-BMI relationship is affected by the individual …

satisfaction after some threshold. Critically, this latter threshold increases with partner's BMI when the individual is overweight …We use life satisfaction and Body Mass Index (BMI) information from three waves of the GSOEP to test for social … interactions in BMI between spouses. Semi-parametric regressions show that partner's BMI is, beyond a certain level, negatively …

be an external sign of wealth. We estimate the direct effect of overweight on emotional well-being in Mexico, a country …Obesity spreads more easily if is not perceived negatively. This may be the case among the poor, for whom fatness can … facing the highest obesity rate in the world. Individual fatness is instrumented using variation in genetic predisposition …

overconsumption and obesity on mortality tends to question that postulate. This paper develops a two-period OLG model where life …

analysis links highly detailed individual level fertility life histories to wealth at death data for four rural villages in …

There is a capital taxation puzzle in most developed countries. Since the 1960s, revenues from wealth transfer taxation … cases; by contrast, lifetime wealth or capital taxation generates much higher revenues and shows no decreasing trend. The … full tax puzzle is certainly not easy to explain. Many usual explanations of the aversion to wealth transfer taxation also …

1950, and back up to about 15% by 2010. A simple theoretical model of wealth accumulation, growth and inheritance can fully … wealth accumulation well above 100%. Our findings illustrate the fact that when the growth rate g is small, and when the rate … of return to private wealth r is permanently and substantially larger than the growth rate (say, r=4%-5% vs. g=1 …

in explaining households' wealth behaviors, and to construct more accurate tests of the theories of savings and portfolio … composition of wealth are similar across surveys, in line with theoretical predictions, and more significant than those obtained …

.25, so that the two preferences are nonetheless far from identical. In addition, the elasticity of children's wealth with … respect to that of their parents is around 0.22. This correlation is corrected for the influence of age on wealth, and … intergenerational transmission of wealth inequalities, but is far from being the most important factor. …

For a sub-sample of French households of an Insee wealth survey, we obtain new and relative measures of 5 individual … altruism are found no to affect wealth but, contrarily to recent results of behavioural analysis, the three other parameters … have significant effects on wealth (financial, gross or net), which are consistent with theoretical predictions : wealth …