Round-up: Kinship and honour in China

The most interesting articles that came to our attention this week

The No-Hunger Games: How GLP-1 Medication Adoption is Changing Consumer Food Demand. Sylvia Hristakeva and colleagues study the effects of Ozempic and Wegovy on consumer demand for food. Analysing longitudinal data from the US, they find that households with at least one GLP-1 user reduce spending on groceries by 6% in the first six months after starting use. This decline is driven by a large reduction in spending on calorie-dense snack foods. Such households also reduce spending on fast food by 9%.

The genetic and environmental composition of socioeconomic status in Norway. Joakim Ebeltoft and colleagues estimate the heritability of four measures of socioeconomic status in a large Norwegian dataset, using several different methods. They find that educational attainment is the most heritable and wealth is the least heritable (perhaps due to the difficulty of measuring wealth). Estimated heritabilities vary substantially by method.