OBJECTIVE To compare the correlates of personal versus intergenerational leisure-time physical activity of parents using the theory of planned behavior. METHODS Participants were parents (n=126) with children between the ages of 2 and 12 years, and they completed a baseline questionnaire exploring intergenerational and personal activity. RESULTS Perceived behavioral control and behavioral f...

BACKGROUND It is of significance to look into the intergenerational transmission of risk behaviour to explain the disparity of health. Our paper contributes to the literature by providing evidence in the context of China, focusing on smoking behaviour. METHODS This paper studies the intergenerational transmission of smoking in the context of China using a nationally representative dataset - t...

Can the rise in obesity among children be attributed to the intergenerational transmission of parental influences? Does this trend affect the influence of parent's socioeconomic status on obesity? This paper documents evidence of an emerging social gradient of obesity in pre-school children resulting from a combination of both socio-economic status and less intensive childcare associated with m...

This article addresses the fundamental issue of using qualitative research methods that encourage young people’s participation in settings more commonly promote neoliberalism at expense social justice. Through a case study an English primary school, it demonstrates how complexity-informed participatory action could be advanced to enable rights, by building intergenerational relationships reposi...

Abstract To adapt to a changing climate, decision-makers design, evaluate, and implement measures that have an implication of justice on citizens in the present well into future. Decision-makers are often required make decisions without certainty consequences understanding their effects intergenerational justice. Thus, managing impacts climate change requires novel decision-aiding approaches co...

Abstract Models for supporting climate adaptation and mitigation planning, mostly in the form of Integrated Assessment Models, are poorly equipped aiding questions related to fairness strategies, because they often disregard distributional outcomes. When evaluating policies using such models, costs benefits typically aggregated across all actors system, over entire planning horizon. While a pol...

The empirical literature on intergenerational income mobility in the United States has focused predominantly on sons. This paper partly redresses that imbalance by using data from the Panel Study of Income Dynamics to investigate intergenerational mobility among daughters. We find that intergenerational transmission of income status is somewhat weaker for daughters than for sons, but is still q...

Intergenerational Mobility, Human Capital Transmission and the Earnings of Second-Generation Immigrants in Sweden We compare the intergenerational earnings mobility of immigrants with natives in Sweden. We find an overall convergence in average earnings between immigrants and natives. This convergence hides a divergence in average earnings between groups of immigrants with different ethnic orig...

Individuals are frequently asked to make sacrifices in an attempt to produce benefits for future generations. Such decisions are referred to as intergenerational dilemmas. Previous research on intergenerational dilemmas has shown that situational manipulation of factors such as the delay between sacrifice and benefits and the perceived similarity with future others modulate intergenerational pr...

Having as a research problem the notorious deficit of legal debate on intergenerational issues in lawsuits that involve questions about justice, responsibility and sustainability, this study affirms obligation parties judge to address future consequences decisions issued benefiting social rights (notably work security) with individual, collective or diffuse effects (especially erga omnes effect...