Intergenerational Persistence of Dietary Habits

Research data examines the transmission of dietary habits across generations. The dataset supports a forthcoming article in the Review of Economics and Statistics. It was contributed by Martina Pons and is scheduled for a 2026 update.

Use Cases

• Analyze the correlation between parent and child dietary habit metrics to measure intergenerational persistence.
• Model the influence of socioeconomic features on the strength of dietary habit transmission.
• Investigate how specific food group consumption patterns are inherited across family generations.

Strengths

• Data is associated with a peer-reviewed journal, the Review of Economics and Statistics.
• A scheduled update is indicated for March 2026.

Limitations

• The sample size, row count, and specific column definitions are unknown.
• The temporal and geographic coverage of the underlying data is unspecified.

Provenance

Source

Review of Economics and Statistics Dataverse.

Freshness

Scheduled for update on 2026-03-31.