The authors provide comparable evidence on the patterns and trends in obesity across the Atlantic and analyze whether … there are economic rationales for public intervention to control obesity. They take into account equity issues as well as … U.S. and European obesity trends, and conclude with a brief review of current policies to reduce and prevent excessive …

, immigrants have better general health, activity limitation, and obesity outcomes than natives. Overall, Puerto Ricans and blacks … highest prevalence of obesity. Multivariate logistic regressions reveal substantial variation in the health outcomes of …

Most elderly parents in Indonesia coreside with their adult children. However, preliminary studies provide some …; Cameron 2000). This paper uses qualitative case studies of elderly parents and their adult children to examine the connection …

This article examines the effects of poverty, public assistance, and family structure on school-age children's home …

-being is causal. This paper reexamines the claim that parental divorce is detrimental to children's emotional well … Survey of Youth, 1979, and found that parental divorce is associated with a higher level of behavior problems in children …, the effect of parents' divorce substantially declines and its influence on their children's emotional well-being is not …