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,...

Climate change is one of the most important challenges for the present generation, which is living in decades characterized by a drastic increase in greenhouse gas emissions, especially in the most developed countries: not only the production realities - for which policies already largely...

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...

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...

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...

Prior studies intensively rely on lifestyle segmentation to investigate the patterns of purchase and consumption decisions. However, the literature does not specifically relate lifestyle profiles with the types of consumer decisions (i.e., purchasing vs. consumption decisions). Therefore, this...

Purpose To explore the characteristics of Art Workers in Colombia, expressed in terms of lifestyles and consumption practices, as well as the relationship between symbolic consumption and the social identity of the group. Design/methodology/approach For this quantitative study, the instrument...

In recent years, researchers have become increasingly aware of the impact that personality traits have on individual lifestyle decisions, both positive and negative. Using longitudinal data from a large household survey as well as genetic information from the UK, the present study unveils the...

Economic development is ushered in rapid urbanisation across the globe. Urbanisation brought in opportunities for improved income, better standard of living, and enhanced health care along with a sea change in lifestyles of the populace. Lifestyle of an individual is a factor that influences the...

Tourism experiences have been recognised for their transformative potential and contributing to improving the tourists' quality of life. Despite this, little is known about the factors that trigger these impacts, especially those associated with the quality of the tourism experience. This study...

A sharing economy enables peer-to-peer (P2P) exchanges of goods and services, benefitting everyone. As traffic congestion and fuel costs continue to rise, bicycle-sharing has gained popularity among citizens as a means of transportation. In recent years, scholars have focused on understanding...

Thriving for excellence can be very stressful at all times. According to new rules, the environment of a classroom is not the same friendly as it was until before the outburst of the pandemic. The new reality imposed restrictions have made it very difficult for students to get along with the...

This study investigates the impacts of lifestyle on municipal solid waste (MSW). Although solid waste is increasingly recognized as a serious worldwide environmental concern, whether and how the lifestyle causally affects MSW are unclear. Based on a unique data of daily littering records of 252...

This study aims to determine the effect of Financial Literacy, Lifestyle, and Self-Control on Consumptive Behavior of Students of Office Administration Education, State University of Jakarta. The object of this research is the Student of the Office Administration Education Study Program, State...

Using microdata for adults from the 1987-2000 years of the Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System, I show that smoking and height-adjusted weight decline during temporary economic downturns while leisure-time physical activity rises. The drop in tobacco use occurs disproportionately among...

This study aims to determine and analyze the effect of advertising, conformity, and lifestyle on the consumptive behavior of students at the Faculty of Economics, University of Jakarta. Objects and subjects are students of the Faculty of Economics, Accounting, Management, and Economics and...

Saudi Arabia has been taking various initiatives (such as improving women's rights for reduced dependency on male guardians, and creating training opportunities for skills improvement among Saudi locals) for creating an integrated community with diverse cultures and lifestyles as a part of...

Wie kann die sozial-ökologische Transformation einer Konsumerlebnisgesellschaft durch eine innere Transformation des Menschen unterstützt werden? Wie können wir lernen, weniger zu wollen, ohne etwas zu vermissen? Welche Formen des Persönlichkeitswachstums können das stetige...

Limiting the anthropogenic environmental impact as part of the 'great transformation' is one of the central challenges of our time. However, ambitions to broaden sustainable ways of living are at odds with the consumeristic self-image of Western societies. In order to initiate a transformation,...

We estimate short- and long-term causal impacts of a type-2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM) diagnosis on lifestyle behaviours. We employ a fuzzy regression discontinuity design exploiting the exogenous cut-off value in the diagnosis of T2DM provided by a biomarker (glycated haemoglobin, HbA1c). We make...

This paper presents research conducted in the United Arab Emirates with the management of Bareburger, the chain of sustainable restaurants, as well as among its clients. In our project, we are interested in the relation between the offer of sustainability and the culture of conscious...

Several research attempts contributed to the literature related to lifestyle market segmentation mainly aimed to define lifestyle segments on a given product/service market in a positivist perspective. However, there is a lack of research interest on a normative perspective, questioning...

We measure unfair health inequality in the UK using a novel data-driven empirical approach. We explain health variability as the result of circumstances beyond individual control and health-related behaviours. We do this using model-based recursive partitioning, a supervised machine learning...

The complex nature of brick-and-mortar lifestyle retailing both from supply-side and demand-side owing to a sheer vast number of unique designs, products, brands, and categories the retailer mandatorily need to offer in their stores as part of their product assortment, added with limitation in...

Research with the title "The Effect of Lifestyle, Price, and Product Quality on Purchasing Decisions of Make Up Products for Students". This researcher uses a quantitative approach with the type of associative research. The data collection technique used a questionnaire, the sampling technique...

The study investigates the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on business activities and lifestyle in Egypt. The study used daily and monthly average data from 15 February 2020 to 19 January 2021. The study found the correlation between workplaces mobility rate and residential mobility (staying at...

This study aims to determine how lifestyle, price, and convenience influence purchasing decisions. The study was conducted for three months, starting from November 2020 to January 2021. The research method used was a survey method with a causal approach. The population in this study was the...

We estimate short- and long-term causal impacts of a type-2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM) diagnosis on lifestyle behaviours. We employ a fuzzy regression discontinuity design exploiting the exogenous cut-off value in the diagnosis of T2DM provided by a biomarker (glycated haemoglobin, HbA1c). We make...