Economics & Human Biology

2003 - 2026

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Volume 61, issue C, 2026

Biases in medical decision-making: A cross-medication comparison

Michele Cantarella, Simona Cantarella, Francesca Zaninotto, Massimo Riccaboni and Giulia Galli

The legacy of Agent Orange: Prenatal exposure to dioxin and human capital formation

Thao Bui

The relationship between oil production and infant health outcomes: Evidence from fracking boom

Hamid Noghanibehambari, Mahmoud Salari, Nahid Tavassoli and Hoa Vu

The role of parenting style and socio-economic status in child development: Understanding the underlying dynamics

Eleonora Matteazzi and Vincenzo Prete

Spousal bereavement and depression: Testing moderating effects of pre-loss circumstances and social support in India

Vijay Victor

The lingering shadow: Understanding the long-term impact of natural disasters on social trust

Xiaokun Yu, Yang Liu and Yugang Yang

Seasonal influenza vaccination uptake and digital literacy: Evidence from European data

Martina Celidoni, Nita Handastya, Guglielmo Weber and Nancy Zambon

Health effects of urgent care center entry: The case of WellNow

Eliane H. Barker and Stephen Wu

Economic progress in twentieth-century Portugal: Revisiting the evidence

Alexandra L. Cermeño, Nuno Palma and Renato Pistola

Do maltreated children think of suicide more? Evidence from South Korea

Elcin Tuzel, Do Won Kwak and Kam Ki Tang

The international diffusion of medical innovation since 1900: Revisiting the Preston curve

Daniel Gallardo-Albarrán and Jurre Jochemsen

Prescriptions for mental health and the labor market penalties of cerebral palsy

Derek Asuman, Tinna Laufey Ásgeirsdóttir and Johan Jarl

Urban-rural medical insurance integration and universal health insurance coverage in China: A quasi-experimental study

Mingzheng Hu, Jinkang Huo, Yingying Ouyang, Weihao Nie, Shaojie Li, Xin Ye and Shuye Yu

Fertility behaviour under geopolitical uncertainty: Evidence from Ukraine

Jeet Saha

The effects of extreme heat on stroke hospitalizations: Evidence from China

Lyuxiu Li, Nan Zhao, Caiyi Zhao, Xin Zhang, Chao Ma and Wei Xu

The impact of personalised weight feedback on heart attack incidence: A regression discontinuity approach

Will Cook

The impact of a household-level food retail environment health quality measure on diet quality

Benjamin Scharadin, Michele Ver Ploeg and Lauren Miller

The impact of excess body mass on employment prospects in Australia

Anushiya Vijayasivajie, Pundarik Mukhopadhaya and Chris Heaton

Patient selection or rational patient choice? Insights from a hospital competition model with heterogeneous agents

Calogero Guccio, Domenico Lisi, Isidoro Mazza and Giacomo Pignataro

County-level income inequality and suicide in the United States

Mark W. Frank and Fidel Gonzalez

Be rich, grow tall? Testing whether parental social origin is associated with filial body height using two German student cohorts

Felix Bittmann

The height of Swiss mercenaries, c. 1725 – c. 1865

Cédric Chambru, Simon Hediger, Jakob Metzler and Ulrich Woitek

Limiting antidepressant prescriptions and suicide risk: Evidence from South Korea

Haewon Oh and Travis A. Smith

Sick and cold? Evidence on the dynamic interplay between energy poverty and self-perceived health

Santiago Budrìa, Paolo Li Donni and Eugenio Zucchelli

Silver bullet? The effect of mask mandates on COVID-19 cases

Elisha K. Denkyirah and Raymond J. March

The impact of heat and cold on mortality and life expectancy in Europe, 2015–2024

Tamás Hajdu

Volume 60, issue C, 2026

Corrigendum to “The impact of Long-term Care Insurance on household income inequality: Evidence from China” [Econ. Hum. Biol. 59 (2025) 101519]

Yuanyuan Chi and Qiang Zhang

Climate change and birth outcomes – Evidence from Brazil

Tallys Kalynka Feldens and Victor Rodrigues de Oliveira

Mental hospitalisation and its impact on mortality

Govert Bijwaard

Self-employment, health, and health care: When the going gets tough, the tough get going?

Clémentine Garrouste, Alain Paraponaris and Nicolas Sirven

In the shadow of a pandemic: Informality and COVID-19 diffusion in Europe

Vincenzo Alfano

The effect of short videos on obesity: Evidence from China

Chenxuan Chen and Qi Wang

The impact of prescription drug monitoring programs on functional health

Anca M. Cotet-Grecu and Danielle Zanzalari

Telecare and elderly mortality: Evidence from Italian municipalities

Nicola Matteucci, Matteo Picchio, Raffaella Santolini and Rostand Arland Yebetchou Tchounkeu

Female heights and sexual dimorphism in Argentina: Data from inmates of a Buenos Aires prison, 1865–1952

Ricardo D. Salvatore

Gender differences in the duration of sick leave: Economics or biology?

Ángel Martín-Román, Alfonso Moral and Sara Pinillos-Franco

Volume 59, issue C, 2025

The impact of Long-term Care Insurance on household income inequality: Evidence from China

Yuanyuan Chi and Qiang Zhang

The impact of obesity on human capital accumulation: Exploring the driving factors

Raquel Carrasco and Diego González-González

Responses in child health to concerted reconstruction efforts in the aftermath of the 2016 earthquake in Ecuador

Jimena Pacheco-Miranda, Natascha Wagner and Juan Ponce

The (birthweight) gains from trade: Chinese imports and infant health in Sub-Saharan Africa

Jorge Agüero and Patralekha Ukil

The impact of super apps on the nutrition transition in low- and middle-income countries: Evidence from Indonesia

Elza Samantha Elmira and Asep Suryahadi

Women’s age at marriage and obesity in Pakistan

Wiktoria Tafesse, Akseer Hussain and Marc Suhrcke

Effects of the 2021 expanded Child Tax Credit on parents’ well-being and time use

Laetitia Lebihan

The impact of biomedical innovation on cancer mortality in 37 countries, 2003–2017

Frank Lichtenberg

Hot and cold, safe and unsafe: Evaluating the impact of extreme temperatures on work-related accidents in China

Zhenyu Yao and Xiang Cao

Expanded prescription coverage and opioid use disorders: Evidence from Medicare Part D

Ricardo B. Ang

Maternal mortality, tuberculosis and social deprivation in Madrid during the second and third decades of the 20th century

Alba Teresa González-Esteban, Stanislao Mazzoni, Michel Oris and Diego Ramiro-Fariñas

Invisible killer under the blue sky：Ozone pollution and infant mortality in China

Hanyi Chen, Huiyan Wu and Junbing Xu

The impact of health shocks on worker performance: Evidence from Major League Baseball

Yulia Chikish and Brad Humphreys

Spouses as home health workers, childcare workers and cooks: Insights for applied research

Shoshana Grossbard

Social homogeneity and spread of pandemic: Evidence from India

Upasak Das, Udayan Rathore and Prasenjit Sarkhel

Birth weight and school performance

Ida Katjivena Pedersen, Bjørn-Atle Reme, Eirin Mølland and Jonas Minet Kinge

(A)symmetries in beauty-status exchange: Spousal relative income and partners’ BMI (at) during marriage

Joanna Syrda

Real wages around the world: Insights from linear programming and accounting for climate differences

Michail Moatsos and Pim de Zwart

Early life exposure to climate shocks and the protective role of cash transfers

Musharavati Ephraim Munyanyi, Kaku Attah Damoah and Nyasha Tirivayi

Economic costs of distancing policy interventions

Olivér Rácz

Impact of health insurance expansion on patients' financial burden and family well-being in South Korea

Giryeon Bae, Hansoo Ko, Hye Myung Lee and Sungchul Park

Pollution avoidance: Within and across category substitution

Pascal Courty and Dapeng Liu

Inequality in provider and patient-initiated healthcare cancellations during Covid-19

Nikita Jacob, Anastasia Arabadzhyan, Panagiotis Kasteridis, Anne Mason and Nigel Rice

Maternal circumstances and intergenerational transmission of health: A model-based recursive partitioning approach from Machine Learning

Dweepobotee Brahma and Souvik Ghosh

Measuring and testing vulnerability to food insecurity for prediction and targeting

Marco Letta, Pierluigi Montalbano, Cristian Morales Opazo and Federica Petruccelli

Income-related mortality inequality and macroeconomic conditions

Johannes Lissdaniels, Ulf-G. Gerdtham and Gawain Heckley

The effect of cash transfers on maternal health seeking: Evidence from Ecuador

Daniel Maggio and Jack Cavanagh

State level differences in life expectancy and lifespan inequality: Is it a matter of socioeconomic inequalities?

M.D.J.W. Wijesinghe, Michael Cameron, Susan Olivia and Les Oxley

Growing up in a growing economy. Reassessing changes in biological living standards in Portugal during the twentieth century

Hugo F.V. Cardoso and Nicola J. Murray

The value of extending healthy life expectancy: A framework for healthcare policy evaluation

Kazuya Ito, Yusuke Tanizawa and Ryuta Takashima

Air pollution and health of working-age population: Evidence from thermal inversion

Shijun You and Shin-Yi Chou