This paper analyzes the importance of social ties for eating behavior of US youth. We propose a novel approach that addresses identification of social endogenous effects. We overcome the problem of measuring the separate impact of endogenous and contextual effects on individual Body Mass Index...

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...

This work analyses the domino effects of the Exchange Rate Mechanism (ERM) crisis stemming from linkages in competitiveness already outlined in Gerlach and Smets (1995); an additional assumption that tries to explain the acceleration of the crises is the full sterilization of capital outflows...

We provide non experimental evidence of the relevance of sociability on subjective wellbeing by investigating the determinants of life satisfaction on a large sample of Europeans aged above 50. We document that voluntary work, religious attendance, helping friends/neighbours and participation to...

We propose a measure of life satisfaction, alternative to the standard synthetic cognitive wellbeing question, based on the specic contribution of eleven life satisfaction sub-components (including satisfaction about the past, life opportunities, hope for the future, vitality, control over one's...