Non-communicable diseases (NCDs) cause about 71% of all deaths globally and a considerable increase in health care costs. To tackle this problem, several Governments have designed "sin taxes", i.e, extra payments related to the quantity of unhealthy contents of specific goods. However, unhealthy...

The COVID‑19 pandemic is having major impacts on our lives in ways that go far beyond health, extending across all dimensions of wellbeing and all population groups. This paper presents the results of a 'rapid evidence review' of the potential impacts of COVID‑19, and the associated economic...

Welfare and well-being have traditionally been gauged by using income and employment statistics, life expectancy, and other objective measures. The Economics of Happiness, which is based on people's reports of how their lives are going, provides a complementary yet radically different approach...

We go beyond estimating the effect of college attainment on longevity by uncovering the mechanisms behind this effect while controlling for latent skills and unobserved heterogeneity. We decompose the effect with respect to a large set of potential mechanisms, including health behaviors,...

We use the high IQ Terman sample to estimate relationships between education, socioemotional skills, and health-related outcomes that include health behaviors, lifestyles, and health measures across the lifecycle. By both focusing on a high IQ sample and controlling for IQ in regression models,...

This paper investigates the role of lifestyles (smoking, drinking and obesity) and working conditions (physical hazards, no support from colleagues, job worries and repetitive work) on health. Three alternative systems of simultaneous multivariate probit equations are estimated, one for each...

Der in diesem Beitrag vorgestellte Forschungsansatz soll als Vorschlag für eine Neuauflage der stadtsoziologischen und stadtgeographischen Aktionsraumforschung verstanden werden. Der methodische Ansatz wird dabei anhand einer explorativen Studie mit Koblenzer Studierenden veranschaulicht....

Consumers preferences for sustainable and healthier lifestyle are examined through stated preference discrete choice experiments. Specifically, we introduce several choice situations in which each respondent was asked to choose the best from three lifestyles presented, including the respondent's...

This paper looks at the roles of technologies and other factors in lifestyle choices, travel patterns and behaviours. Building on earlier Roundtable reports on value of time, it discusses how recent behavioural changes might affect the disutility of time spent travelling relative to time spent...

Der in diesem Beitrag vorgestellte Forschungsansatz soll als Vorschlag für eine Neuauflage der stadtsoziologischen und stadtgeographischen Aktionsraumforschung verstanden werden. Der methodische Ansatz wird dabei anhand einer explorativen Studie mit Koblenzer Studierenden veranschaulicht....

The relationship between recessions and health is mixed, with some evidence from the most recent financial crisis finding a positive effect on heath behaviours. This study uses longitudinal data spanning the periods before, during and after the Irish crisis of 2008, to test the impact of...

There's no doubt that the risk factors typical of a certain lifestyle which may have a negative impact on human health are numerous, especially considering that research in health (medicine, pharmacology etc) were focused on their determination, but especially on the cause-effect relationship....

Introduction -- The Brief History of Development and Sustainable Development -- Towards an Alternative to Development: The Growing Legitimacy of Post-Development -- Sustaining the 'Good Life': Buen Vivir as an Alternative to Sustainable Development -- Understandings of Buen Vivir in Ecuador's...

Using several waves of the China Health and Nutrition Survey (CHNS), this study analyzes the effect of long work hours on health and lifestyles in a sample of 18- to 65-year-old Chinese workers. Although working long hours does significantly increase the probabilities of high blood pressure and...

In this paper we look at the relationship between health and income as mediated by "lifestyle" choices; that is, a set of behaviours which are thought to influence health and are generally considered to invoke a substantial degree of free choice. The main underlying assumption is that...

Over the last decades, economic, social, and environmental changes have profoundly affected citizen-consumer’s lifestyle and food habits. Current food habits encourage people either to eat more outside home or to a massive use of convenience foods. The consequence is the increasing rate of...

Auch wenn Umweltbewegungen "Weiter so ist keine Option! Wende oder Ende!" fordern und der Begriff der Nachhaltigkeit voll im Mainstream angekommen ist - die moderne Gesellschaft verteidigt ihren Wohlstand und Lebensstil entschiedener denn je. Beharrlich wird eine Politik der Nicht-Nachhaltigkeit...

Wine globalization : longer-term dynamics and contemporary patterns / David Inglis -- Reflexive imbrications : Burgundy and the globalization of terroir / Marion Demossier -- Building and sustaining legitimacy in an emerging wine region : the case of North Carolina, USA / Ian Malcolm Taplin --...

Introduction to Consumer Behaviour and Overview of the Global Food and Drink Sector -- Models of consumer behaviour and holistic healthy lifestyle -- Consumer perceptions in food and drink -- Consumer learning and memory in food and drink -- Motivation and involvement in food and drink --...

Verlagstext: "Diese Krise ist viel mehr als nur eine wirtschaftliche Katastrophe. Sie macht bisherige Blindspots sichtbar und eröffnet neue Perspektiven. Alternative Formen des Zusammenlebens und -wirtschaftens, die zuvor eher in Nischen existierten, erhalten einen immensen Auftrieb, etwa...

We use the high IQ Terman sample to estimate relationships between education, socioemotional skills, and health-related outcomes that include health behaviors, lifestyles, and health measures across the lifecycle. By both focusing on a high IQ sample and controlling for IQ in regression models,...

This paper investigates the role of lifestyles (smoking, drinking and obesity) and working conditions (physical hazards, no support from colleagues, job worries and repetitive work) on health. Three alternative systems of simultaneous multivariate probit equations are estimated, one for each...

This study adopted Rogers’ diffusion of innovation model to investigate the adoption of three social media with high penetration in Taiwan—Facebook, Line, and email. Special attention was paid to identifying the factors that differentiated the non-adopters (who did not adopt any of the three...

This purpose of this study was to investigate (a) the prevalence and patterns of e-health/m-health usein Hong Kong;(b) the activities that people engage in via health-related information platforms/apps;and (c) the roles thattechnology readiness, the expectation-confirmation model, and...

This study adopted Rogers' diffusion of innovation model to investigate the adoption of three social media with high penetration in Taiwan-Facebook, Line, and email. Special attention was paid to identifying the factors that differentiated the non-adopters (who did not adopt any of the three...