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This paper examines the impact of overweight family members on weight outcomes of Italian children aged 6 to 14 years. We use an original dataset matching the 2012 cross sections of the Italian Multipurpose Household Survey and the Household Budget Survey. Since the identification of within-family peer effects is known to be challenging, we implement our analysis on a partially identified model using inferential procedures recently introduced in the literature and based on standard Bayesian computation methods. We find evidence of a strong, positive effect of both overweight peer children in the family and of overweight adults on children weight outcomes. The impact of overweight peer children in the household is larger than the impact of adults. In particular, the estimated confidence sets associated to the peer children variable is positive with upper bound around one or larger, while the confidence sets for the parameter associated to obese adults often include zero and have upper bound that rarely is larger than one.
Federico Crudu; Laura Neri; Silvia Tiezzi. Family ties and child obesity in Italy. Economics & Human Biology 2020, 40, 100951 .
AMA StyleFederico Crudu, Laura Neri, Silvia Tiezzi. Family ties and child obesity in Italy. Economics & Human Biology. 2020; 40 ():100951.
Chicago/Turabian StyleFederico Crudu; Laura Neri; Silvia Tiezzi. 2020. "Family ties and child obesity in Italy." Economics & Human Biology 40, no. : 100951.
This paper discusses how objective environmental indicators affect the measure of a country’s well-being. The dependent variable in the analysis is subjective well-being (WB), for which the objective environmental variable we use is per capita carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions. The paper refers to the relationship between subjective well-being and a set of objective variables representing the four basic types of capital to satisfy human needs and to ensure the well-being of future generations based on the ecological economic systems. Implementing different mediation models, estimated using structural equation modeling, we discover that the objective environmental variable does not directly affects the country’s subjective well-being, while, according to different models, the mediated effects are statistically significant in explaining subjective well-being. The surprising results lead us to think that the environmental risks related to CO2 emissions might not be correctly perceived by the public.
Gianni Betti; Laura Neri; Marco Lonzi; Achille Lemmi. Objective Environmental Indicators and Subjective Well-Being: Are They Directly Related? Sustainability 2020, 12, 2277 .
AMA StyleGianni Betti, Laura Neri, Marco Lonzi, Achille Lemmi. Objective Environmental Indicators and Subjective Well-Being: Are They Directly Related? Sustainability. 2020; 12 (6):2277.
Chicago/Turabian StyleGianni Betti; Laura Neri; Marco Lonzi; Achille Lemmi. 2020. "Objective Environmental Indicators and Subjective Well-Being: Are They Directly Related?" Sustainability 12, no. 6: 2277.
Today, more than ever, it is becoming evident that cities and regions are crucial for the achievement of human well-being. In this perspective, the analysis of the effect of urbanization on subjective well-being at sub-national level is an issue of great relevance. The aim of this study is to investigate the effect of urbanization on SWB at the regional level and, in particular, the moderator effect of the regional context in influencing this effect in Italy and Spain. From a methodological point of view, we apply a two-step approach as a graphical method, which allows us to consider individual and regional information in our analysis. Our findings indicate that urbanization significantly affects subjective well-being, especially in various regions of Italy. This cross-regional heterogeneity can be explained by different regional factors, which supports the idea that regional contexts can exert effects on achieving future people's well-being in cities.
María Navarro; Antonella D'Agostino; Laura Neri. The effect of urbanization on subjective well-being: Explaining cross-regional differences. Socio-Economic Planning Sciences 2020, 71, 100824 .
AMA StyleMaría Navarro, Antonella D'Agostino, Laura Neri. The effect of urbanization on subjective well-being: Explaining cross-regional differences. Socio-Economic Planning Sciences. 2020; 71 ():100824.
Chicago/Turabian StyleMaría Navarro; Antonella D'Agostino; Laura Neri. 2020. "The effect of urbanization on subjective well-being: Explaining cross-regional differences." Socio-Economic Planning Sciences 71, no. : 100824.