Economics & Human Biology

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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 Castello

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

Volume 52, issue C, 2024

COVID-19 transmission in a resource dependent community with heterogeneous populations: An agent-based modeling approach

Aaron D. Wood and Kevin Berry

Genetic endowments for social capital: An investigation accounting for genetic nurturing effects

Michael Lebenbaum, France Gagnon, Claire de Oliveira and Audrey Laporte

How did unmet care needs during the pandemic affect health outcomes of older European individuals?

Julien Bergeot and Florence Jusot

Socioeconomic mortality differences during the Great Influenza in Spain

Sergi Basco, Jordi Domenech and Joan Rosés

The economics of aging with infectious and chronic diseases

Holger Strulik and Volker Grossmann

Parental gender preferences over three centuries: Evidence from Argentina

Fernando Gonzalez

The health consequences of returning to work after retirement: Evidence from a Japanese longitudinal survey

Masaaki Mizuochi

Predicting depression in old age: Combining life course data with machine learning

Carlotta Montorsi, Alessio Fusco, Philippe Van Kerm and Stéphane P.A. Bordas

Hypertension effects of the COVID-19 lockdowns: Evidence from a repeated cross-sectional survey in Peru

Raisa Sara, Vlad Radoias and Younoh Kim

Is household shock a boon or bane to the utilisation of preventive healthcare for children? Evidence from Uganda

Susmita Baulia

Economic incentives surrounding fertility: Evidence from Alaska’s permanent fund dividend

Nishant Yonzan, Laxman Timilsina and Inas Rashad Kelly

Feeding for a brighter future: The long-term labor market consequences of school meals in rural China

Yanran Zhou, Jingru Ren and Xiaodong Zheng

Childhood circumstances, social mobility and the obesity transition: Evidence from South Africa

Kate Rich and Dieter von Fintel

Global pain levels before and during the COVID-19 pandemic

Lucía Macchia, Liam Delaney and Michael Daly

COVID-19, deaths at home and end-of-life cancer care

Anastasia Arabadzhyan, Katja Grašič and Peter Sivey

Fertility and immigration: Do immigrant mothers hand down their fertility pattern to the next generation? Evidence from Norway

Jostein Grytten, Irene Skau and Rune Sørensen

Cigarette packaging, warnings, prices, and contraband: A discrete choice experiment among smokers in Ontario, Canada

G. Emmanuel Guindon, Emmanouil Mentzakis and Neil Buckley

People inflows as a pandemic trigger: Evidence from a quasi-experimental study

Andrea Caria, Marco Delogu, Marta Meleddu and Giovanni Sotgiu

Schools and the transmission of Sars-Cov-2: Evidence from Italy

Salvatore Lattanzio

Deforestation and child health in Cambodia

Gabriel Fuentes Cordoba

Exposure to Islamophobia: The impacts of an increased risk of bullying victimization on human capital

J. Gabriel Romero-Ciavatto and Serafima Chirkova

Changing the mindsets? Education and the intergenerational spread of tolerance for physical violence against women in Zimbabwe

Marshall Makate and Chamunorwa Nyamuranga

Health inequality and health insurance coverage: The United States and China compared

Joan Costa-Font, Frank Cowell and Xuezhu Shi

The effect of marijuana use in adolescence on college and graduate degree attainment

Aliaksandr A. Amialchuk and Brooke M. Buckingham

Birth order and children’s health and learning outcomes in India

Arjita Chandna and Priya Bhagowalia

The illness trap: The impact of disability benefits on willingness to receive HCV treatment

Marta Giachello, Lucia Leporatti, Rosella Levaggi and Marcello Montefiori

Assessing the effectiveness of international government responses to the COVID-19 pandemic

Héctor López-Mendoza, María A. González-Álvarez and Antonio Montañés