Carbon emissions from private transportation and resident travel are exhibiting a fast
upward trend that requires immediate action. Personal carbon trading (PCT) in private …

This paper investigates the role of biased health perceptions as a potential driving force of
risky health behaviors. We define absolute and relative health perception biases, illustrate …

The fetal origins hypothesis suggests that health and nutrition shocks in utero are causally
related to health deficits in old age. It has received considerable empirical support, both …

Purpose Spain decided to implement NutriScore with the objective of helping consumers to
choose healthier foods. NutriScore is a summary indicator interpretative nutritional labelling …

This paper presents preliminary summary results from a longitudinal study of participants in
seven US states during the COVID-19 pandemic. In addition to standard socio-economic …

In this paper, I show how medical progress, conceptualized as increasing effectiveness of
health spending in reducing health deficits, affects optimal lifetime health behavior and …

Individual differences in temporal and probabilistic discounting are associated with a wide
range of life outcomes in literature. Traditional approaches have focused on impulsiveness …

This paper proposes a new framework to discuss self‐control problems in the context of life‐
cycle health and longevity. Individual decisions are conceptualized as the partial control of …

In this paper I propose a time‐consistent method of discounting hyperbolically and apply it to
three canonical environmental problems:(i) optimal renewable resource use,(ii) the tragedy …

In this paper I discuss overweight and obesity and their repercussions on health deficit
accumulation and longevity in a life cycle model. Individual decisions are conceptualized as …