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The Direct Effect of Obesity on Emotional Well-Being: Evidence from Mexico

Bargain, Olivier; Zeidan, Jinan - HAL - 2014

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 …. Results confirm a positive or insignificant effects of obesity among the poor and point to a depressing effect among the rich …

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Existence and stability of overconsumption equilibria

Ponthière, Grégory - HAL - 2009

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

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Happy house: Spousal weight and individual well-being

Clark, Andrew E.; Etilé, Fabrice - HAL - 2010

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 correlated with own satisfaction. Own BMI is positively...

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Food price policies and the distribution of body mass index: Theory and empirical evidence from France

Etilé, Fabrice - HAL - 2009

price of fruit and vegetables in brine by 10% would decrease the prevalence of overweight and obesity by 24% and 33 …

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Child Income as an Insurance Mechanism. Consequences for the Health-Education Relationship

Bourlès, Renaud; Ventelou, Bruno; Woode, Maame Esi - HAL - 2012

This paper analyzes the relationships between HIV/AIDS and education taking into account the appropriative nature of child income. We first build a simple theoretical model linking parental health risk, educational choice and appropriation of future children's income. We show that considering...

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Optimal Preventive Bank Supervision: Combining Random Audits and Continuous Intervention

Belhaj, Mohamed; Klimenko, Nataliya - HAL - 2012

Early regulator interventions into problem banks is one of the key suggestions of Basel II. However, no guidance is given on their design. To fill this gap, we outline an incentive-based preventive supervision strategy that eliminates bad asset management in banks. Two supervision techniques are...

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Piecework versus merit pay: a Mean Fi eld Game approach to academic behavior

Besancenot, Damien; Courtault, Jean-Michel; Dika, Khaled El - HAL - 2011

This paper applies the Mean Fi eld Game approach pioneered by Lasry and Lions (2007) to the analysis of the researchers' academic productivity. It provides a theoretical motivation for the stability of the universaly observed Lotka's law. It shows that a remuneration scheme taking into account...

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IPPP - Risks and opportunities An economic perspective

Brux, Julie De; Marty, Frédéric - HAL - 2014

This article analyzes some of the issues raised by institutionalized public-private partnerships in an economic perspective. We demonstrate that although they may address some of the main limits of purely contractual public-private partnerships, such as the issues of control, know-how transfer,...

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Incentives from stock option grants: a behavioral approach

Bahaji, Hamza - HAL - 2011

This paper examines the incentives from stock options for loss-averse employees subject to probability weighting …, the model predicts that incentives are maximized for strike prices set around the stock price at inception. This finding … accommodating their existence. The paper also examines the relationship between risk taking incentives and stock options and finds …

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EMPLOYEE STOCK OPTIONS INCENTIVE EFFECTS: A CPT-BASED MODEL

Bahaji, Hamza - HAL - 2011

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