Economics & Human Biology

2003 - 2025

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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 M. Aguero 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 R. 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 R. 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 Miklós 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 P. 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

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 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 Baum, Andres Garcia-Suaza, Miguel Henry and Jesus 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