Mortality,Family and Lifestyles |
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Authors: | Gregory Ponthiere |
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Institution: | 1.Department of Social Sciences,Paris School of Economics, Ecole Normale Supérieure,Paris,France |
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Abstract: | While there is a large empirical literature on the intergenerational transmission of health and survival outcomes in relation
to lifestyles, little theoretical work exists on the long-run prevalence of (un)healthy lifestyles induced by mortality patterns.
To examine that issue, this paper develops an overlapping generations model where a healthy lifestyle and an unhealthy lifestyle
are transmitted vertically or obliquely across generations. It is shown that there must exist a locally stable heterogeneous
equilibrium involving a majority of healthy agents, as a result of the larger parental gains from socialization efforts under
a higher life expectancy. We also examine the robustness of our results to the introduction of parental altruistic concerns
for children’s health and of asymmetric socialization costs. |
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