Economics & Human Biology

2003 - 2024

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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 E. 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

Volume 53, issue C, 2024

The modification of social space as a tool for lowering social stress

Oded Stark

Rational self-medication

Michael E. Darden and Nicholas W. Papageorge

Income insecurity and mental health in pandemic times

Dirk Foremny, Pilar Sorribas-Navarro and Judit Vall Castelló

Peer effects in weight-related behaviours of young people: A systematic literature review

Nathalie Müller, Francesco Fallucchi and Marc Suhrcke

The effect of women's decision-making on child nutritional outcomes in South Africa

Olanrewaju Adewole Adediran

A tale of lockdown policies on the transmission of COVID-19 within and between Chinese cities: A study based on heterogeneous treatment effect

Jingjing Li, Chu Zhuang and Wei Zou

Lifetime costs of overweight and obesity in Italy

Vincenzo Atella, Federico Belotti, Matilde Giaccherini, Gerardo Medea, Antonio Nicolucci, Paolo Sbraccia and Andrea Piano Mortari

Occupational differences in the effects of retirement on hospitalizations for mental illness among female workers: Evidence from administrative data in China

Tianyu Wang, Ruochen Sun, Jody L. Sindelar and Xi Chen

The relationship between Marriage and Body Mass Index in China：Evidence from the China Health and Nutrition Survey

Shiwen Quan and Huiyun Zhang

The great Indian demonetization and gender gap in health outcomes: Evidence from two Indian states

Md Nazmul Ahsan and Sounak Thakur

Do conditional cash transfers reduce hypertension?

Emma Aguila, William H. Dow, Felipe Menares, Susan Parker, Jorge Peniche and Soomin Ryu

Secular trends and regional pattern in body height of Austrian conscripts born between 1961 and 2002

Sylvia Kirchengast, Thomas Waldhör, Alfred Juan and Lin Yang

Severe prenatal shocks and adolescent health: Evidence from the Dutch Hunger Winter

Gabriella Conti, Stavros Poupakis, Peter Ekamper, Govert Bijwaard and L.H. Lumey

Unconditional cash transfers, health and savings

Sefa Awaworyi Churchill, Nasir Iqbal, Saima Nawaz and Siew Ling Yew

“Deaths of despair” over the business cycle: New estimates from a shift-share instrumental variables approach

Christopher Lowenstein

Education increases patience: Evidence from a change in a compulsory schooling law

Pınar Kunt Šimunović

Secular change in heights of rural adults in west-central poland between 1986 and 2016: The transition from pre- to post-communism

Sylwia Bartowiak, Jan M. Konarski, Ryszard Strzelczyk and Robert M. Malina

The effect of actual and expected income shocks on mental wellbeing: Evidence from three East Asian countries during COVID-19

Akbar Zamanzadeh, Tony Cavoli, Matina Ghasemi and Ladan Rokni

Beyond the brink: Unraveling the opioid crisis and its profound impacts

Xianhua Zai

The causal impact of fetal exposure to PM2.5 on birth outcomes: Evidence from rural China

Lyuxiu Li and Xin Zhang