%0 Journal Article %T Mortality, Family and Lifestyles %+ Paris-Jourdan Sciences Economiques (PSE) %+ Paris School of Economics (PSE) %A Ponthière, Grégory %< avec comité de lecture %@ 1058-0476 %J Journal of Family and Economic Issues %I Springer Verlag %V 32 %N 2 %P 175-190 %8 2011-06 %D 2011 %R 10.1007/s10834-010-9229-9 %K Altruism %K Family %K Lifestyle %K Longevity %K Socialization %Z Humanities and Social Sciences/Economics and FinanceJournal articles %X 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. %G English %L halshs-00754537 %U https://pjse.hal.science/halshs-00754537 %~ SHS %~ UNIV-PARIS1 %~ ENS-PARIS %~ ENPC %~ PJSE %~ PSE %~ CNRS %~ EHESS %~ INRA %~ AO-ECONOMIE %~ PARISTECH %~ PSL %~ AGREENIUM %~ INRAE %~ PSE-POST-PRINT %~ ENS-PSL %~ EHESS-PSL