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Depression affects the way that people process information and make decisions, including those involving risk and uncertainty. Our objective is to analyze the way that depressive episodes shape risk preferences and risk-taking behaviors. We are the first to address this issue using large-scale,...
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types of debt and financial assets held conditional on holding the different types of debt and assets. The analysis suggests … amounts of both debt (unsecured and secured) and assets (property and non-housing), even after conditioning on the probability …
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We use information from the last wave of the Spanish Survey of Households Finance to study the influence of debt on the … smaller MPC than non-indebted households. This negative association increases along with the amount of debt. We also find a …
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types of debt and financial assets held conditional on holding the different types of debt and assets. The analysis suggests … amounts of both debt (unsecured and secured) and assets (property and non-housing), even after conditioning on the probability …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010398248
Obesity has become a major health issue. Research in economics has provided important insights as to how technological … progress reduced the relative price of food and contributed to the increase in obesity. However, the increased availability of …’s well-being. It is found that obesity decreases the well-being of individuals who report limited self-control, but not …
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weight and obesity rates. We first introduce the concept of novelty consumption, which refers to an increase in food …
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weight and obesity rates. We first introduce the concept of novelty consumption, which refers to an increase in food …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011264784
If human beings care about their relative weight, a form of imitative obesity can emerge (in which people …-effects estimates are not always well-determined, but there are grounds to take seriously the possibility of socially contagious obesity. …
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If human beings care about their relative weight, a form of imitative obesity can emerge (in which people …-effects estimates are not always well-determined, but there are grounds to take seriously the possibility of socially contagious obesity. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10004999153
which there can be obesity spirals after only small drops in the price of food. …
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