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Intergenerational transmission of healthy eating behaviour and the role of household income
Goode, Alison; Mavromaras, Kostas; Smith, Murray - 2008
This paper investigates the possibility of intergenerational transmission of unhealthy eating habits from parents to adult children. It uses the 2003 Scottish Health Survey and estimates the association between the present healthy eating behaviour of adult children and the past parental death...
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The economic security index: A new measure for research and policy analysis
Hacker, Jacob S.; Huber, Gregory Alain; Nichols, Austin; … - 2012
This paper presents the Economic Security Index (ESI), a new, more comprehensive measure of economic insecurity. By combining data from multiple surveys, we create an integrated measure of volatility in available household resources, accounting for fluctuations in income and out-of-pocket...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010289981
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The effects on stature of poverty, family size and birth order: British children in the 1930s
Hatton, Timothy J.; Martin, Richard M. - 2008
quality (in the form of health outcomes) and the number of children in the family at a time when genuine poverty still existed … in Britain. Our results provide strong support both for negative birth order effects and negative family size effects on … positively influences the heights of children but, even after accounting for this, the number of children in the family still has …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010268818
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The impact of family income on child achievement: Evidence from the earned income tax credit
Dahl, Gordon B.; Lochner, Lance - 2012
Past estimates of the effect of family income on child development have often been plagued by endogeneity and … (EITC) over the last two decades. The largest of these changes increased family income by as much as 20%, or approximately …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010284026
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Living Conditions of Children and Parental Well-Being : Evidence from German Data on Life Satisfaction
Schwarze, Johannes - 2004
The question that this paper addresses is whether or not parents are altruistic towards their children. A new approach will be introduced, where the life satisfaction data of parents will be regressed onto the living conditions of their children who now live independently. After controlling for...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010261955
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Item non-response and imputation of annual labor income in panel surveys from a cross-national perspective
Frick, Joachim R.; Grabka, Markus M. - 2007
Using data on annual individual labor income from three representative panel datasets (German SOEP, British BHPS, Australian HILDA) we investigate a) the selectivity of item non-response (INR) and b) the impact of imputation as a prominent post-survey means to cope with this type of measurement...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010324270
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The impact of household capital income on income inequality: A factor decomposition analysis for Great Britain, Germany and the USA
Fräßdorf, Anna; Grabka, Markus M.; Schwarze, Johannes - 2008
This paper analyses the contribution of capital income to income inequality in a cross-national comparison. Using micro-data from the Cross-National Equivalent File (CNEF) for three prominent panel studies, namely the BHPS for Great Britain, the SOEP for West Germany, and the PSID for the USA, a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010324272
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Family income and participation in post-secondary education
Corak, Miles; Lipps, Garth; Zhao, John - 2004
The relationship between family income and post-secondary participation is studied in order to determine the extent to … has in fact narrowed. The relationship between family income and post-secondary participation did become stronger during …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010261666
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The Effects of Wealth and Income on Subjective Well-Being and Ill-Being
Headey, Bruce; Wooden, Mark - 2004
The accepted view among psychologists and economists alike is that household income has statistically significant but only small effects on measures of subjective well-being. Income, however, is clearly an imperfect measure of the economic circumstances of households. Using data drawn from the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010261799
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The Effect of Economic Crises on Nutritional Status : Evidence from Russia
Stillman, Steven; Thomas, Duncan - 2004
This paper uses data from the Russian Longitudinal Monitoring Survey (RLMS) to examine the relationship between nutritional status and both longer-run household resources and short-run fluctuations in household resources. We evaluate six measures of nutrition – gross energy intake, two...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010261851