Economics & Human Biology

2003 - 2025

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Volume 56, issue C, 2025

Migrant well-being in Australia: Does locus of control matter?

Anita Staneva and Andreas Chai

Shattered ground, shaken minds: Mental health consequences of earthquakes

Andika Ridha Ayu Perdana and Judit Vall Castelló

Adolescent girls’ empowerment policy, health awareness, and decision-making: Evidence from the SABLA program in India

Modjgan Alishahi and Samira Hasanzadeh

Educational burden reduction, educational inequality, and enrollment pressure: Evidence from China

Hua Liu, Kaixuan Zhang, Lin Wang and Jiwei Chen

Religiosity, attitudes toward science, and public health: Evidence from Finland

Ioannis Laliotis, Evangelos Mourelatos and Joona Lohtander

The long-run and intergenerational impact of early exposure to the Great Chinese Famine of 1959–61 on mental health

Chih Ming Tan, Xiaobo Zhang and Xin Zhang

Social capital and vaccination compliance: Evidence from Italy

Giulia Montresor and Lucia Schiavon

Cognitive or non-cognitive? The effect of maternal dominance on adolescent human capital: Evidence from adolescents' educational decisions

Chengkui Liu, Feirong Ren, Liuyi Yang, Wei Fan and Xiongcai Huang

Minimum wages and alcohol consumption: Evidence from Canadian longitudinal microdata

Yihong Bai and Michael Veall

Height self-selection of internal migrants in Italy in the second half of the twentieth century

Donatella Lanari, Andrea Crippa and Luca Pieroni

How important is girls’ ‘Biological Head Start’ in explaining gender differences in education and the labour market?

Marianne Røed, Pål Schøne and Marte Strøm

Height development trends among 7–18-year-old school-age children in central plains of China between 2000 and 2019: A serial cross-sectional surveillance study in China

Fanke Zhou, Lifan Ding, Yuxi Li, Jiajia Hu, Junna Zhang, Yixiao Geng, Xiaolei Ban, Wencan Wu, Xiaomin Lou and Xian Wang

Did the COVID-19 pandemic change the importance of health for life satisfaction? Evidence from France

Philippe Tessier and François-Charles Wolff

Workplace autonomy and mental health

Joe Spearing

Too busy with the “rat race” to have kids? Longitudinal evidence on the impact of peer grit on the fertility of reproductive-age women in China

Haiyang Lu, Keya Zeng and Weiliang Hu

The gender wage gap across life: Effects of genetic predisposition towards higher educational attainment

Alex Bryson, Tim Morris, David Bann and David Wilkinson

Smoking to your kids gain? Childhood exposure to parental smoking and obesity

Kushneel Prakash and Sanjesh Kumar

Volume 55, issue C, 2024

The role of economic news in predicting suicides

Francesco Moscone, Elisa Tosetti and Giorgio Vittadini

Road to perdition? The effect of illicit drug use on labour market outcomes of prime-age men in Mexico

José Ignacio Antón, Juan Ponce and Rafael Muñoz de Bustillo

Power to choose? Examining the link between contraceptive use decision and domestic violence

Manini Ojha and Karan Babbar

Long-term exposure to ambient PM2.5 and population health: evidence from linked census data

Neil Rowland, Duncan McVicar, Stavros Vlachos, Babak Jahanshahi, Mark McGovern and O’Reilly, Dermot

Loneliness during the COVID-19 pandemic: Evidence from five European countries

Alessio Rebechi, Anthony Lepinteur, Andrew Clark, Nicholas Rohde, Claus Vögele and D’Ambrosio, Conchita

Beyond the biological prime: Deciphering the link between child survival and maternal age in India

Muhammad Farhan Majid, Opinder Kaur and Anil B. Deolalikar

Diverging destinies: How children are faring under demographic transition

Glory Narjinary and Srinivas Goli

Stress in the air: A conjecture

Oded Stark

The geography of healthcare: Mapping patient flow and medical resource allocation in China

Xiaofang Dong and Yalin Wang

The effects of physical activity prescription on mental health: Evidence from primary care

Helena M. Hernández-Pizarro and Laia Maynou

Decentralized wage bargaining and health

Terhi Maczulskij, Mika Haapanen, Antti Kauhanen and Krista Riukula

The role of gene–environment interaction in the formation of risk attitudes

Jaroslav Groero

Daylight duration and time allocation of children and adolescents

Ha Nguyen, Stephen R. Zubrick and Francis Mitrou

What is the relationship between risk attitudes and ambient temperature? Evidence from a large population-based cohort study

Adriana N. König, Michael Laxy, Annette Peters, Alexandra Schneider, Kathrin Wolf, Lars Schwettmann and Daniel Wiesen

Health benefits of air pollution reduction: Evidence from economic slowdown in India

Olexiy Kyrychenko

Social inequalities in adult mortality across Europe (18th-21st centuries): A critical analysis of theories and evidence

Víctor Antonio Luque de Haro

The fattening speed: Understanding the impact of internet speed on obesity, and the mediating role of sedentary behaviour

Michelle I-Hsuan Lin, Sefa Awaworyi Churchill and Klaus Ackermann

High temperatures and traffic accident crimes: Evidence from more than 470,000 offenses in China

Meng Wang and Shiying Zhang

Discrimination backfires? Minority ethnic disparities in vaccine hesitancy

Joan Costa-Font and Fatima Docrat

The physical well-being of Indigenous communities in the Pacific Northwest: Anthropometric evidence from British Columbia’s jails, 1864–1913

Kris Inwood and Ian Keay

Teen parent trap? The education and labor implications of motherhood and fatherhood during the transition from adolescence to adulthood in Cebu, the Philippines

Kritika Sen Chakraborty and Kira M. Villa

Fiscal externalities and underinvestment in early-life human capital: Optimal policy instruments for a developing country

Nicholas Lawson and Dean Spears

Employee well-being in the digital age: Assessing the impacts of a smartphone application in the workplace

Toshiaki Aizawa, Hiroko Okudaira, Ritsu Kitagawa, Sachiko Kuroda and Hideo Owan

Does early-life famine exposure lead to healthy later-life dietary behavior: Evidence from the great Chinese famine

Yiru Wang, Ting Shi and Wenbin Zang

Volume 54, issue C, 2024

Does facial structure explain differences in student evaluations of teaching? The role of fWHR as a proxy for perceived dominance

Valentina Paredes, Francisco Pino and David Díaz

Race, immunity, and lifespan: Unraveling the effect of early-life exposure to malaria risk on lifespan

Sok Chul Hong and Inhyuk Hwang

How did the European Marriage Pattern persist? Social versus familial inheritance: England and Quebec, 1650–1850

Gregory Clark, Neil Cummins and Matthew Curtis

Left-digit bias in self-reported height

Hyunkuk Cho

The changing relationship between bodyweight and longevity in high- and low-income countries

Joanna Kopinska, Vincenzo Atella, Jay Bhattacharya and Grant Miller

The effects of social capital deprivation for wellbeing: Evidence from the Covid-19 pandemic

Giulia Slater

Cash transfers and mental health in Egypt

Hoda El-Enbaby, Bruce Hollingsworth, Jean-François Maystadt and Saurabh Singhal

Association of cigarette smoking with changes in macroeconomic conditions

Samuel Asare

The impact of excess body weight on employment outcomes: A systematic review of the evidence

Viktorija Kesaite and Jane Greve

High times and troubled relationships: Recreational marijuana laws and intimate partner violence

Michele Baggio, Alberto Chong and Revathy Suryanarayana

Vestiges of famine: Long-term mortality impacts of early-life exposure to the 1840s famine in Estonia

Kersti Lust and Hannaliis Jaadla

Temperature exposure and sleep duration: Evidence from time use surveys

Tamás Hajdu

Family poverty and adolescents’ cognitive and noncognitive outcomes: Evidence from China

Jiwei Chen and Zongli Zhang

Explaining adverse cholesterol levels and distinct gender patterns in an Indonesian population compared with the U.S

Ralph Lawton, Elizabeth Frankenberg, Teresa Seeman, Arun Karlamangla, Cecep Sumantri and Duncan Thomas

Fuel poverty and mental health in a COVID-19 context

Dorothée Charlier and Bérangère Legendre

Mother’s age at marriage and gender-differential in child schooling: Evidence from Pakistan

Sumeet Ashok, Mazhar Mughal and Rashid Javed

Pain and subjective well-being among older adults in the developing world: A comprehensive assessment based on the WHO Study on Global Ageing and Adult Health

Silas Amo-Agyei and Jürgen Maurer

Long-term effects of early life rainfall shocks on foundational cognitive skills: Evidence from Peru

Nicolás Pazos, Marta Favara, Alan Sánchez, Douglas Scott and Jere Behrman

It never rains but it pours: Austerity and mortality rate in peripheral areas

Calogero Guccio, Giacomo Pignataro and Francesco Vidoli

Baby bump? Birth month, family income, and early childhood development

Katherine Engel and Dave Marcotte

Coupling and decoupling of ancestral linkages and current cross-border economic activities: Genetics and policy

Suparna Chakraborty, Miao Grace Wang and M. C. Sunny Wong

Health impact evaluation of Aspirational Districts Program in India: Evidence from National Family Health Survey

Sandip K. Agarwal and Shubham Mishra

Trust predicts compliance with COVID-19 containment policies: Evidence from ten countries using big data

Francesco Sarracino, Talita Greyling, Kelsey O'Connor, Chiara Peroni and Stephanie Rossouw

Health welfare in the digital era: Exploring the impact of digital trade on residents' health

Jianlong Wang, Haitao Wu, Yong Liu and Weilong Wang