Numerous behavioural factors have been identified as having an impact on household stockholding decisions. Given there is both theoretical and empirical evidence to support the premise that offspring gender can influence specific types of parental preferences, I test the theory that offspring...

Numerous behavioral factors have been identified as having an impact on household stockholding decisions. Given there is both theoretical and empirical evidence to support the premise that offspring gender can influence specific types of parental preferences, I test the theory that offspring...

Consumers consistently express concern about the risk of new variant Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease (nvCJD) from eating beef. Given several US cows infected with Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy (BSE) (mad cow disease) and recent findings that the path of transmission of nvCJD remains unknown, the...