Economics & Human Biology

2003 - 2025

Current editor(s): J. Komlos, Inas R Kelly and Joerg Baten

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Volume 57, issue C, 2025

Gender gaps in early childhood development in Latin America and the Caribbean

Samuel Berlinski, Anna Sanz-de-Galdeano and Alba Sóñora-Noya

How do basic income for elderly affect health of self-employed?

Emma Aguila and Raquel Fonseca

Housing insecurity, financial hardship and mental health

Timothy Ludlow, Jonas Fooken, Christiern Rose and Kam Ki Tang

Auspicious years, the birth of girls, and their birth outcomes

Hyunkuk Cho

Second generation effects of an experimental conditional cash transfer program on early childhood human capital in Nicaragua

Tania Barham, Oscar M. Díaz-Botía, Karen Macours, John A. Maluccio and Julieta Vera Rueda

Changes in child height and open defecation in rural India: Understanding improvements between the two most recent demographic surveys

Sangita Vyas and Anna Vera

The impact of extreme high temperatures on ADRD hospitalization in Guangdong, China, 2017–2019

Caiyi Zhao, Xin Zhang, Chao Ma and Wei Xu

The impact of individuals’ preventive behaviours on health and healthcare utilisation

Aarushi Dhingra, Gianluca Fiorentini and Luke Connelly

Internet use and physical and mental health in old age during the COVID-19 pandemic: Evidence from partners in SHARE

Gianmaria Niccodemi, Alessandra Gaia, Mino Novello and David Consolazio

Towering Intellects? Sizing up the relationship between height and academic success

Stephanie Coffey and Amy Ellen Schwartz

Bridging the pulse: Exploring inequalities in diabetes and hypertension medication prescriptions in Spain’s immigrant and native communities

Luigi Boggian, Joan E. Madia and Catia Nicodemo

The effect of New York State’s Paid Family and Medical Leave Program on birth outcomes

Katherine Engel and Taryn W. Morrissey

Equity in use and financing of assisted reproductive technologies: Does income matter?

Aarushi Dhingra, Brenda Gannon, Luke Connelly and Gita Mishra

Obesity And Cash Rewards

Boris Augurzky, Thomas K. Bauer, Arndt R. Reichert, Christoph M. Schmidt and Harald Tauchmann

Are preadolescent and adolescent physical growth failures related to poorer adolescent cognitive and socioemotional skills in Ethiopia, India, Peru, and Vietnam?

Le Thuc Duc and Jere R. Behrman

State-led regional development strategy and multidimensional health poverty of the residents: Evidence from the China’s great western development program

Yihan Wu and Xingmin Zhang

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 Castello

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