Obesity is increasing worldwide for both adults and children. Genetic disposition is responsible for some variation in body weight but cannot explain the dramatic increase in the last two decades. The increase must be due to structural and behavioral changes. One such behavioral change is the...

This paper investigates the relationship between income satisfaction of adult children and their relative economic status, using data from the German Socio-Economic Panel and income rank as an indicator of status. The results show that children appear to compare their actual economic status with...

"The paper analyzes aggregate idiosyncratic volatility (IV) in G7 countries using recent data up to 2003. Consistent with Campbell, Lettau, Malkiel, and Xu's (2001) results obtained from U.S. data over the period 1962-97, we find that the equal-weighted IV exhibits a significant upward trend in...