GETTING READY FOR THE MARRIAGE MARKET? A RESPONSE

Lundborg, PetterLund University,Lunds universitet,Centrum för ekonomisk demografi,Ekonomihögskolan,Centre for Economic Demography,Lund University School of Economics and Management, LUSEM,Department of Economics, Lund University, Sweden (författare)

Overweight and obesity constitute a major and increasing health and welfare problem throughout the world. Assessing the multifaceted mechanisms - biological, environmental and behavioural - behind this development is a crucial task in medical, social and economic sciences. We are, therefore, grateful to have been given the opportunity to, once again, discuss whether the risk of divorce may be one of the factors influencing the incentives of becoming overweight or obese and, hence, ultimately the physical appearance among the married. In this Debate, colleagues Schneider and Grimps present the results of a multilevel analysis, in which they could not identify any statistically significant association between body mass index (BMI) and divorce risk among married people. Thus, they question the findings, previously published in this Journal (Lundborg et al., 2007). The Schneider and Grimps arguments are not convincing, however. So, we still claim that the statistical material at hand does, indeed, imply that divorce risk at the national level may well influence the weight of the married.

Nystedt, PaulLinköpings universitet,Nationalekonomi,Filosofiska fakulteten,University of Linköping(Swepub:hj)nyspau (författare)
Lindgren, BjörnGothenburg University,Göteborgs universitet,Lund University,Lunds universitet,Institutionen för hälsovetenskaper,Medicinska fakulteten,Department of Health Sciences,Faculty of Medicine,Institutionen för nationalekonomi med statistik,Department of Economics,Department of Economics, University of Gothenburg, Sweden; National Bureau of Economic Research, USA(Swepub:gu)xlinbj (författare)
Centrum för ekonomisk demografiEkonomihögskolan (creator_code:org_t)

Ingår i:Journal of Biosocial Science: Cambridge University Press44:2, s. 235-2420021-93201469-7599

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