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dc.contributor.authorGoode, Alisonen
dc.contributor.authorMavromaras, Kostasen
dc.contributor.authorSmith, Murrayen
dc.date.accessioned2008-07-28-
dc.date.accessioned2010-07-07T11:29:30Z-
dc.date.available2010-07-07T11:29:30Z-
dc.date.issued2008-
dc.identifier.piurn:nbn:de:101:1-20080609163en
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10419/34802-
dc.description.abstractThis paper investigates the possibility of intergenerational transmission of unhealthy eating habits from parents to adult children. It uses the 2003 Scottish Health Survey and estimates the association between the present healthy eating behaviour of adult children and the past parental death from cardiovascular disease (CVD). It uses parental CVD death as an adverse health signal which may cause a healthy eating compensatory response in adult children. This response is due to increased chances and perception of genetic predisposition of adult children as well as an indicator for parental past unhealthy eating habits which may have been passed onto the adult children. Regression analysis suggests that paternal history has no impact on either sons or daughters, and maternal history influences negatively the eating behaviour of daughters only. Unhealthy eating intergenerational transmission appears to be more intense amongst lower household income individuals.en
dc.language.isoengen
dc.publisher|aInstitute for the Study of Labor (IZA) |cBonnen
dc.relation.ispartofseries|aIZA Discussion Papers |x3535en
dc.subject.jelD1en
dc.subject.ddc330en
dc.subject.keywordIntergenerational transmissionen
dc.subject.keywordhealthy eatingen
dc.subject.keywordhousehold incomeen
dc.subject.keywordcardiovascular diseaseen
dc.subject.keywordpublic healthen
dc.subject.keywordgenderen
dc.subject.stwErnährungsgewohnheiten
dc.subject.stwGesundheitsrisikoen
dc.subject.stwGenerationenbeziehungenen
dc.subject.stwFamiliensoziologieen
dc.subject.stwHaushaltseinkommenen
dc.subject.stwSchottlanden
dc.titleIntergenerational transmission of healthy eating behaviour and the role of household income-
dc.type|aWorking Paperen
dc.identifier.ppn570533570en
dc.rightshttp://www.econstor.eu/dspace/Nutzungsbedingungenen

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