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2003 - 2025

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Volume 57, issue C, 2025

Gender gaps in early childhood development in Latin America and the Caribbean Downloads
Samuel Berlinski, Anna Sanz-de-Galdeano and Alba Sóñora-Noya
How do basic income for elderly affect health of self-employed? Downloads
Emma Aguila and Raquel Fonseca
Housing insecurity, financial hardship and mental health Downloads
Timothy Ludlow, Jonas Fooken, Christiern Rose and Kam Ki Tang
Auspicious years, the birth of girls, and their birth outcomes Downloads
Hyunkuk Cho
Second generation effects of an experimental conditional cash transfer program on early childhood human capital in Nicaragua Downloads
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 Downloads
Sangita Vyas and Anna Vera
The impact of extreme high temperatures on ADRD hospitalization in Guangdong, China, 2017–2019 Downloads
Caiyi Zhao, Xin Zhang, Chao Ma and Wei Xu
The impact of individuals’ preventive behaviours on health and healthcare utilisation Downloads
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 Downloads
Gianmaria Niccodemi, Alessandra Gaia, Mino Novello and David Consolazio
Towering Intellects? Sizing up the relationship between height and academic success Downloads
Stephanie Coffey and Amy Ellen Schwartz
Bridging the pulse: Exploring inequalities in diabetes and hypertension medication prescriptions in Spain’s immigrant and native communities Downloads
Luigi Boggian, Joan E. Madia and Catia Nicodemo
The effect of New York State’s Paid Family and Medical Leave Program on birth outcomes Downloads
Katherine Engel and Taryn W. Morrissey
Equity in use and financing of assisted reproductive technologies: Does income matter? Downloads
Aarushi Dhingra, Brenda Gannon, Luke Connelly and Gita Mishra
Obesity And Cash Rewards Downloads
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? Downloads
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 Downloads
Yihan Wu and Xingmin Zhang

Volume 56, issue C, 2025

Migrant well-being in Australia: Does locus of control matter? Downloads
Anita Staneva and Andreas Chai
Shattered ground, shaken minds: Mental health consequences of earthquakes Downloads
Andika Ridha Ayu Perdana and Judit Vall Castello
Adolescent girls’ empowerment policy, health awareness, and decision-making: Evidence from the SABLA program in India Downloads
Modjgan Alishahi and Samira Hasanzadeh
Educational burden reduction, educational inequality, and enrollment pressure: Evidence from China Downloads
Hua Liu, Kaixuan Zhang, Lin Wang and Jiwei Chen
Religiosity, attitudes toward science, and public health: Evidence from Finland Downloads
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 Downloads
Chih Ming Tan, Xiaobo Zhang and Xin Zhang
Social capital and vaccination compliance: Evidence from Italy Downloads
Giulia Montresor and Lucia Schiavon
Cognitive or non-cognitive? The effect of maternal dominance on adolescent human capital: Evidence from adolescents' educational decisions Downloads
Chengkui Liu, Feirong Ren, Liuyi Yang, Wei Fan and Xiongcai Huang
Minimum wages and alcohol consumption: Evidence from Canadian longitudinal microdata Downloads
Yihong Bai and Michael Veall
Height self-selection of internal migrants in Italy in the second half of the twentieth century Downloads
Donatella Lanari, Andrea Crippa and Luca Pieroni
How important is girls’ ‘Biological Head Start’ in explaining gender differences in education and the labour market? Downloads
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 Downloads
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 Downloads
Philippe Tessier and François-Charles Wolff
Workplace autonomy and mental health Downloads
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 Downloads
Haiyang Lu, Keya Zeng and Weiliang Hu
The gender wage gap across life: Effects of genetic predisposition towards higher educational attainment Downloads
Alex Bryson, Tim Morris, David Bann and David Wilkinson
Smoking to your kids gain? Childhood exposure to parental smoking and obesity Downloads
Kushneel Prakash and Sanjesh Kumar

Volume 55, issue C, 2024

The role of economic news in predicting suicides Downloads
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 Downloads
José Ignacio Antón, Juan Ponce and Rafael Muñoz de Bustillo
Power to choose? Examining the link between contraceptive use decision and domestic violence Downloads
Manini Ojha and Karan Babbar
Long-term exposure to ambient PM2.5 and population health: evidence from linked census data Downloads
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 Downloads
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 Downloads
Muhammad Farhan Majid, Opinder Kaur and Anil B. Deolalikar
Diverging destinies: How children are faring under demographic transition Downloads
Glory Narjinary and Srinivas Goli
Stress in the air: A conjecture Downloads
Oded Stark
The geography of healthcare: Mapping patient flow and medical resource allocation in China Downloads
Xiaofang Dong and Yalin Wang
The effects of physical activity prescription on mental health: Evidence from primary care Downloads
Helena M. Hernández-Pizarro and Laia Maynou
Decentralized wage bargaining and health Downloads
Terhi Maczulskij, Mika Haapanen, Antti Kauhanen and Krista Riukula
The role of gene–environment interaction in the formation of risk attitudes Downloads
Jaroslav Groero
Daylight duration and time allocation of children and adolescents Downloads
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 Downloads
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 Downloads
Olexiy Kyrychenko
Social inequalities in adult mortality across Europe (18th-21st centuries): A critical analysis of theories and evidence Downloads
Víctor Antonio Luque de Haro
The fattening speed: Understanding the impact of internet speed on obesity, and the mediating role of sedentary behaviour Downloads
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 Downloads
Meng Wang and Shiying Zhang
Discrimination backfires? Minority ethnic disparities in vaccine hesitancy Downloads
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 Downloads
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 Downloads
Kritika Sen Chakraborty and Kira M. Villa
Fiscal externalities and underinvestment in early-life human capital: Optimal policy instruments for a developing country Downloads
Nicholas Lawson and Dean Spears
Employee well-being in the digital age: Assessing the impacts of a smartphone application in the workplace Downloads
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 Downloads
Yiru Wang, Ting Shi and Wenbin Zang
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