Economics & Human Biology
2003 - 2025
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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
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