Obesity has become a major health issue. Research in economics has providedimportant insights as to how technological progress reduced the relative price of food andcontributed to the increase in obesity. However, the increased availability of food might wellhave overstrained will power and led...

We extend the existing literature on food taxes targeting obesity. We systematically incorporatethe implicit substitution between added sugars and solid fats into a comprehensive food demandsystem and evaluate the effect of taxes on sugars and fats. The approach conditions how foodand obesity...

Malnutrition and food deprivation, which are concentrated in poor countries, have been along-term concern of economists, but as per capita income in developed countries has grown in the20th century, a new problem of over-nutrition leading to obesity has occurred. This paper developsmodels of...

This paper investigates certain issues of economic and ethnic segregation from theperspective of children in the three metropolitan regions of Sweden by using a relative newoperationalization of the neighbourhood concept. Neighbourhoods are clustered bypopulation share of visible immigrants in...

We study the importance of childhood socioeconomic conditions in explaining differences inlife expectancy using data from a sample of around 5,000 children collected in the UK in1937-39, who have been traced through official death records up to 2005. We estimate anumber of duration of life...

Der vorliegende Werkstattbericht „Umweltbildung“ basiert auf den Ergebnissen desForschungsprojekts „Umweltbildung Erneuerbare Energien für Kinder und Jugendliche“. DasVorhaben wurde in der Zeit von September 2003 bis Februar 2005 von iserundschmidt –Kreativagentur für PublicRelations...

Economic decisions have been shown to depend on actual outcomes as well as perceived intentions. In this paper, we examine wether and how the relative importance of outcomes or intentions for economic decision develops with age. We report the resullt of ultimatum games with children, teens and...

[...]The focus of my remarks is something else entirely. Mypurpose is threefold: first, to make the case that the study ofhistory is essential to understanding the present and future ofany urban area; second, to suggest that in terms of age, size,density, and demographic patterns, New York has...

It has become a truism to say that immigration hastransformed American society since 1965. Beginning with“gateway” cities like New York and Los Angeles, the effect ofnew immigrants now extends to small pork- or chickenprocessingtowns in Iowa or North Carolina. Indeed, theMarch 2004 annual...

[...]This exploratory paper first tests whether homeownershiphas equally positive effects for children of low-income andhigher income families. Focusing on the low-income group, itthen examines whether, and how, these homeownership effectsare influenced by neighborhood attributes. The next...