Economics & Human Biology

2003 - 2025

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Volume 58, issue C, 2025

Evaluating the impact of long-term care insurance reform on health-related quality of life and inequality among older adults in China: A quasi-experimental analysis

Lin Lin, Min He and Xianhua Zai

Sleep hours fall as income rises: Macro and micro evidence on sleep inequality around the world

Cristián Jara, Francisca Pérez and Rodrigo Wagner

In the eye of the storm. Long-term impact of the Covid-19 pandemic on healthcare utilization in Lombardy

Federico Franzoni, Claudio Lucifora, Antonio Giampiero Russo and Daria Vigani

The effects of adolescent depression and attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder on educational attainment in adulthood

Jiaqi Chen and Alex Weng

Empowering women, enhancing diets: The impact of women’s bargaining power on dietary quality in urban China

Wenli Shang, Ying Zhou and Xu Tian

Parental health, adolescents’ mental distress and non-cognitive skills

Apostolos Davillas, Victor Hugo de Oliveira and Athina Raftopoulou

Harder being left behind: Health status of Indian women from migrant households

Sana Tabassum and Chitwan Lalji

Public Policies and Femicides during the COVID-19 Pandemic: Evidence from São Paulo, Brazil

Maria Dolores Montoya Diaz, Paula Pereda, Fabiana Rocha, Pedro A.C. Oliveira, Isadora Bousquat Árabe, Noemi Kreif, Samuel Lordemus and Rodrigo Moreno-Serra

The intergenerational association of epigenetic modifications between mothers and offspring, from birth to adolescence

Chiara Costi, Giorgia Menta, Giovanni Fiorito and D’Ambrosio, Conchita

Links between COVID-19 lockdowns and drug overdose deaths, evidence from panel data

Yimin Wang

Drivers of COVID-19 in U.S. counties: A wave-level analysis

Christopher F. Baum, Andrés García-Suaza, Miguel Henry and Jesús Otero

More Than a Ban on Smoking? Behavioural Spillovers of Smoking Bans in the Workplace

Joan Costa-Font, Luca Salmasi and Sarah Zaccagni

Individualism and support for COVID-19 government interventions: The moderating role of perceived economic risk

Ying Jiang, Guikun Yin and Qinglong Shao

Impacts of a minimum pricing policy on high fat, sugar and sodium (HFSS) foods: Environmental, dietary and welfare analysis

Wisdom Dogbe, Kaizhe Huang and Cesar Revoredo-Giha

Economic freedom and gender health gap in the E.U

Matteo Migheli

When the thermometer rises, the scales tip: Extreme temperature exposure and obesity

Akwasi Ampofo, Rejoice E.A. Churchill and Sefa Awaworyi Churchill

Heterogeneous impacts of climate change on morbidity

Tamás Hajdu

The impact of new energy demonstration city policy on the mental health of middle-aged and older adults

Shenwei Wan, Yanbang Zhou, Lei Zhou, Song Chen and Fangxuan Qi

Expensive famine: Early hunger experience and diabetes treatment burden

Ge Zhu, Li Wang and Wang Xuejun

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 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 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 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 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