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Young adults living with their parents and the influence of peers
Adamopoulou, Effrosyni; Kaya, Ezgi - 2015
This paper focuses on young adults living with their parents in the U.S. and studies the role of peers. Using data from the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent Health (Add Health) we analyze the influence of high school friends on the nest-leaving decision of young adults. We achieve...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011471456
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Young adults living with their parents and the influence of peers
Adamopoulou, Effrosyni; Kaya, Ezgi - 2016
This paper studies the impact of peer behavior on living arrangements of young adults in the U.S. Using data from the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent Health (Add Health) we analyze the influence of high school friends on the nest-leaving decision of young adults. We achieve...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011517589
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Obesity is Contagious! Evidence from US Data
Corrado, Luisa; Distante, Roberta - 2012
Obesity is a rising epidemic. This research study shows that the scale of such a phenomenon is due to the effects of peers on individual weight-related behaviour, as well as to the limits on dynamic behavior imposed by habits. We estimate a dynamic linear-in-means model to analyse the importance...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014163174
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Cultural participation, relational goods and individual subjective well-being : some empirical evidence
Tavano Blessi, Giorgio; Grossi, Enzo; Sacco, Pier Luigi; … - In: Review of economics & finance (2014) 3, pp. 33-46
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010404016
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Children, spousal love, and happiness: An economic analysis
Grossbard-Shechtman, Shoshana; Mukhopadhyay, Sankarananda - 2012
In this paper we examine how children affect happiness and relationships within a family by analyzing two unique … loss of spousal love; (b) loss of spousal love is associated with loss of overall happiness; but (c) presence of children … is not associated with significant loss of overall happiness. If children reduce feelings of being loved by the spouse …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010291387
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Children, spousal love, and happiness : an economic analysis
Grossbard-Shechtman, Shoshana; Mukhopadhyay, Sankar - 2012
In this paper we examine how children affect happiness and relationships within a family by analyzing two unique … loss of spousal love; (b) loss of spousal love is associated with loss of overall happiness; but (c) presence of children … is not associated with significant loss of overall happiness. If children reduce feelings of being loved by the spouse …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009683159
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Leisure inequality in the United States: 1965 - 2003
Sevilla, Almudena; Gimenez-Nadal, J. Ignacio; Gershuny, … - 2012
This paper exploits the complex sequential structure of the diary data in the American Heritage Time Use Study (AHTUS) and constructs three classes of indicators that capture the quality of leisure ('pure leisure', 'co-present leisure' and 'leisure fragmentation') to show that the relative...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010287648
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Crossing boundaries and time : an exploration of time allocation, emotional well-being of immigrants in the United States
Coniglio, Nicola; Hoxhaj, Rezart; Lagravinese, Raffaele - 2023
, exploring the relationship between daily activities and feelings of happiness, stress, and meaningfulness. We analyze the entire … assessments, immigrants are more optimistic and perceive these activities as associated with higher levels of happiness and … meaningfulness. The study also finds evidence of emotional assimilation over time, with happiness disparities between immigrants and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014318984
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Portfolios of the rich
Carroll, Christopher D. - 2000
Recent research has shown that 'rich' households save at much higher rates than others (see Carroll (2000); Dynan Skinner and Zeldes (1996); Gentry and Hubbard (1998); Huggett (1996); Quadrini (1999)) This paper documents another large difference between the rich and the rest of the population:...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010293507
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On the demand for grandchildren: Tied transfers and the demonstration effect
Cox, Donald; Stark, Oded - 2004
Most private giving between living generations takes the form of tied transfers, such as help with housing downpayments. We argue that parents provide help with downpayments in order to encourage the production of grandchildren, and that such a subsidization emanates from the demonstration...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010293715