This study investigates lifetime socioeconomic health disparities through longitudinal biomarkers from the Dutch Lifelines cohort study and biobank. We construct an allostatic load index from 12 biomarkers and analyze the dynamics of health and its association with socioeconomic status (SES)...

We propose a theoretical model to study individual lifestyle choices related to calorie intake and physical activity, depending on personal fitness level and body weight. The model builds on the rational eating literature and can generate a variety of behaviors that are consistent with the...

This paper investigates the potential of the fairly recent phenomenon of entrepreneurial lifestyle migration, in the context of rural Algarve (Portugal) from the perspective of lifestyle migrant entrepreneurs (LMEs) and their socioeconomic contribution to the development of rural areas. The...

This article explores how digital platforms facilitate entrepreneurship and enable global mobility for digital nomads, i.e., individuals who work remotely while residing in various locations worldwide. The specific focus is on how these platforms influence digital nomads' decision making related...

Obesity disease is a significant health issue and has affected millions of people worldwide. Identifying underlying reasons for the onset of obesity risk in its early stage has become challenging for medical practitioners. The growing volume of lifestyle data related to obesity has made it...

Previous research, focusing primarily on high income countries, has linked later sunsets to sleep deficits and worse health outcomes. These results might not generalize to low- and middle- income countries, which have different socioeconomic, cultural, and environmental conditions. Using data...

This ideas paper provides recommendations on how to improve physical activity amongst the EU population. The ideas proposed are largely based on the 11 September 2024 SHARE 2.0 Conference. They can serve as a valuable resource for local and regional administrations, policymakers, and sport...

This ideas paper provides recommendations on how to improve physical activity amongst the EU population. The ideas proposed are largely based on the 11 September 2024 SHARE 2.0 Conference. They can serve as a valuable resource for local and regional administrations, policymakers, and sport...

Background Obesity has become major public health problem around the world. Lifestyle interventions, Pharmacotherapy and bariatric surgery are the common intervention to reduce weight in clinical practice. This study aims to conduct an economic evaluation of Duodenal-Jejunal Bypass Sleeve (DJBS)...

Purpose This study analyzes what type of influencer - microcelebrity or microinfluencer - is best suited to promoting healthy food brands and how that influence depends on consumers' healthy lifestyles. Design/methodology/approach An empirical study with a real healthy food brand was developed...

We study the effect of royalty status - historically rooted legal privilege enjoyed by hereditary monarchs - on human longevity, a proxy of individuals' health capital. We disentangle royalty status that encompassed serving as heads of state, and hence subject to status-related stress, from...

During the first wave of the COVID-19 pandemic, Shanghai implemented lockdown measures to stop transmission of the virus. Over 26 million residents, including 0.8 million children aged 3-6, were confined at home. This study leveraged a city-wide cohort of preschool children - the Shanghai...

Influencer marketing is an increasingly significant research topic, but there is a research gap when it comes to utilizing data from social media influencers' online community to identify novel consumer groups through market segmentation. To achieve this, a case study of 50 Instagram Fashion...

This study aims to comprehensively investigate the impact of green consumption on adopting a sustainable lifestyle. Based on the theory of planned behavior (TPB), a simple conceptual model is developed, and hypothesized relationships are tested in the context of a developing country- India....

During Covid-19 holiday travel became shorter in distance and more surface-based, presenting an unusual opportunity to explore people's experiences of less carbon-intensive holiday travel. In this paper, survey and interview data are used to investigate pandemic holiday practices, exploring how...

During the first wave of the COVID-19 pandemic, Shanghai implemented lockdown measures to stop transmission of the virus. Over 26 million residents, including 0.8 million children aged 3-6, were confined at home. This study leveraged a city-wide cohort of preschool children - the Shanghai...

The lifestyle and consumption habits of individuals are crucial in the question of ecological sustainability. Current consumption patterns need to be changed, requiring societies to shift cultural norms and create new consumer habits which are within planetary boundaries. In the practices of...

Does living in a low-income neighborhood have negative health consequences? We document causal neighborhood effects on health by exploiting a Spatial Dispersal Policy that quasi-randomly resettled refugees across neighborhoods from 1986 to 1998. Refugees allocated to low-income neighborhoods had...

This study explores the implications of digital influence on purchasing patterns among Ghanaian women, focusing on the nuanced distinctions between working and non-working lifestyles. Employing a robust quantitative research approach, insights were gathered from 279 respondents through a survey....

With a novel quality theory of consumption which treats opulence and self-restraint in consumption styles symmetrically, Ernst Mohr shows how social distance and proximity are communicated by consumption and produced by communication. He positions fringe styles with those of the mainstream in an...

The goal of the project is to implement accessible, inclusive health promotion, fitness and well-being programmes in schools, designed for youth with and without disabilities, with a strong focus on healthy nutrition, physical activity, mental health and health literacy.

In every organization, employees deal with increasing job pressures. In recent years, women have faced even greater difficulties in such circumstances. This study proposed to investigate how work-life balance (WLB) affects the personal lives of working women in the banking industry of Larkana...

Promoting green transition in social life and consumption is an effective way to achieve the goal of “carbon peaking and carbon neutrality”. The current academic community has paid extensive attention to the green way of production while not paying enough attention to the green transition of...

Health check-ups provide information on disease risk for individuals. It is assumed that such negative health information will lead to the adoption of healthier lifestyles. However, the relationship between the information provided by health check-ups and subsequent lifestyle modifications...

Traditional stochastic mortality models tend to extrapolate, to focus on identifying trends in mortality without explaining them. Those that do link mortality with other variables usually limit themselves to GDP. This article presents a novel stochastic mortality model that incorporates a wide...

Policy and practitioners' initiatives to stimulate sustainable consumption have so far failed to have notable impact on individuals' behaviors. The current commentary is a plea to social and sustainability scientists, particularly to economists dealing with sustainable agri-food systems, to dig...

The growing middle classes in middle-income countries may play a key role in current trends of democratic backsliding, online activism and lifestyle politics. This contribution uncovers which modes of political participation are prevalent among the middle classes in Peru and the Philippines,...

Aim/purpose - The paper aims to present a preliminary consumer typology based on the declared nutritional behaviors and selected lifestyle elements of Polish and Slovak consumers. Design/methodology/approach - The research was conducted in the first half of 2019, among non-randomly selected...