Economics & Human Biology

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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

Volume 51, issue C, 2023

Stunting and wasting in a growing economy: biological living standards in Portugal during the twentieth century

Alexandra Cermeño, Nuno Palma and Renato Pistola

Soda expansion in the tropics: The effect on obesity rates among women without piped water at home

Patricia I. Ritter

The effects of taxation on the individual consumption of sugar-sweetened beverages

Céline Bonnet and Vincent Réquillart

The association of asthma and air pollution: Evidence from India

Damini Singh, Indrani Gupta and Arjun Roy

Direct and crowding-out effects of a Hepatitis B vaccination campaign

Clémentine Garrouste, Arthur Juet and Anne-Laure Samson

The impact of overweight and obesity on unemployment duration among young American workers

Jeremy Groves and Virginia Wilcox

The sorting effect in healthcare access: Those left behind

Carine Milcent

Spatiotemporal variations in mean height of 17-year-old students born in 1957–2002 across 47 Japanese prefectures: Evidence from School Health Surveys

Nayu Ikeda and Nobuo Nishi

General and COVID19-specific emotional stress: Religious practice as a potential coping strategy

Maite Blázquez Cuesta and Rocío Sánchez-Mangas

Leave for where? The impact of air quality on migration: Evidence at the city-pair level in China

Mingyue Wang and Tianshi Sun

Seasonal patterns in newborns’ health: Quantifying the roles of climate, communicable disease, economic and social factors

Mary-Alice Doyle

Health insurance, labor market shocks, and mental health during the first year of the COVID-19 crisis

Sanders Korenman and Rosemary T. Hyson

Gender differences in the effect of teleworking on job loss during the COVID-19 pandemic in Spain

Maite Blázquez Cuesta, Ainhoa Herrarte Sánchez and Ana Moro-Egido

The intergenerational legacy of the 1959–1961 Great Chinese Famine on children’s cognitive development

Chih Ming Tan, Zhibo Tan and Xiaobo Zhang

Causal effect of obesity on the probability of employment in women in Turkey

Didem Pekkurnaz

Mental health effects of social distancing in Switzerland

Marc Anderes and Stefan Pichler

Height and political activism in rural Aragón (Spain) during the 20th century. A new perspective using individual-level data

Francisco Marco-Gracia and Margarita López-Antón

Trade liberalization and nutrition transition: Evidence from China

Xu Tian and Faqin Lin

Valuing mortality attributable to present and future temperature extremes in Argentina

Christian García-Witulski, Mariano Rabassa, Mariana Conte Grand and Julie Rozenberg

Too stressed to sleep? Downsizing, job insecurity and sleep behavior

Cornelia Chadi

Mental health effects of COVID-19 lockdowns: A Twitter-based analysis

Sara Colella, Frédéric Dufourt, Vincent Hildebrand and Rémi Vivès

Paid family leave and parental investments in infant health: Evidence from California

Jessica Pac, Ann Bartel, Christopher Ruhm and Jane Waldfogel

Immigration policy shocks and infant health

Laxman Timilsina

Air quality and employee performance in teams: Evidence from the NFL

Brad Humphreys and Jane E. Ruseski

Exposure to wildfires and health outcomes of vulnerable people: Evidence from US data

Jiyuan Zheng

The effect of hurricanes on mental health over the long term

Yasin Civelek

State dependence in immunization and the role of discouragement

Kabir Dasgupta, Gail Pacheco and Alexander Plum

Casino-based cash transfers and fertility among the Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians in North Carolina: A time-series analysis

Parvati Singh, Alison Gemmill and Tim-Allen Bruckner