Economics & Human Biology

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Volume 26, issue C, 2017

The impact of spousal bereavement on subjective wellbeing: Evidence from the Taiwanese elderly population pp. 1-12

Fu-Min Tseng, Dennis Petrie and Roberto Leon-Gonzalez

Height premium for job performance pp. 13-20

Tae Hyun Kim and Euna Han

Risk aversion and religious behaviour: Analysis using a sample of Danish twins pp. 21-29

Jytte Seested Nielsen, Mickael Bech, Kaare Christensen, Astrid Kiil and Niels Christian Hvidt

Household food group expenditure patterns are associated with child anthropometry at ages 5, 8 and 12 years in Ethiopia, India, Peru and Vietnam pp. 30-41

Debbie L. Humphries, Kirk A. Dearden, Benjamin T. Crookston, Tassew Woldehanna, Mary E. Penny and Jere Behrman

Comparing the role of the height of men and women in the marriage market pp. 42-50

Eiji Yamamura and Yoshiro Tsutsui

Childhood obesity among the poor in Peru: Are there implications for cognitive outcomes? pp. 51-60

Suzanne L. Wisniewski

A tall order: Small area mapping and modelling of adult height among Swiss male conscripts pp. 61-69

Radoslaw Panczak, André Moser, Leonhard Held, Philip A. Jones, Frank J. Rühli and Kaspar Staub

Investigating the poverty-obesity paradox in Europe pp. 70-85

Luca Salmasi and Martina Celidoni

Heterogeneity in predictive power of early childhood nutritional indicators for mid-childhood outcomes: Evidence from Vietnam pp. 86-95

Le Thuc Duc and Jere Behrman

Health and weight – gender-specific linkages under heterogeneity, interdependence and resilience factors pp. 96-111

Olaf Hübler

Imperfect information on physical activity and caloric intake pp. 112-125

Matthew Harris

The heights of French-Canadian convicts, 1780s–1820s pp. 126-136

Alex Arsenault Morin, Vincent Geloso and Vadim Kufenko

The BMI values of the lower classes likely declined during the Great Depression pp. 137-143

John Komlos and Scott Carson

Obesity and its socioeconomic determinants in Iran pp. 144-150

Mohammad Hassan Emamian, Mansooreh Fateh, Ahmad Reza Hosseinpoor, Ali Alami and Akbar Fotouhi

The contribution of urbanization to non-communicable diseases: Evidence from 173 countries from 1980 to 2008 pp. 151-163

Yevgeniy Goryakin, Lorenzo Rocco and Marc Suhrcke

Health and income inequalities in Europe: What is the role of circumstances? pp. 164-173

M. Pasqualini, D. Lanari, L. Minelli, Luca Pieroni and Luca Salmasi

Social capital and cigarette smoking: New empirics featuring the Norwegian HUNT data pp. 174-185

M. Kamrul Islam, Sherman Folland and Oddvar Kaarboe

Long-run health consequences of air pollution: Evidence from Indonesia's forest fires of 1997 pp. 186-198

Younoh Kim, Scott Knowles, James Manley and Vlad Radoias

Volume 25, issue C, 2017

Introduction to the special issue in honor of Nobel Laureate Angus Deaton on health in developed and developing countries pp. 1-2

Franco Peracchi

Economics, human biology and inequality: A review of “puzzles” and recent contributions from a Deatonian perspective pp. 3-8

Joerg Baten

Growing up in wartime: Evidence from the era of two world wars pp. 9-32

Enkelejda Havari and Franco Peracchi

Are publicly insured children less likely to be admitted to hospital than the privately insured (and does it matter)? pp. 33-51

Diane Alexander and Janet Currie

Height and cognition at work: Labor market productivity in a low income setting pp. 52-64

Daniel LaFave and Duncan Thomas

Child height and intergenerational transmission of health: Evidence from ethnic Indians in England pp. 65-84

Caterina Alacevich and Alessandro Tarozzi

Evaluating the role of income, state dependence and individual specific heterogeneity in the determination of subjective health assessments pp. 85-98

Ivan Fernandez-Val, Yevgeniya Savchenko and Francis Vella

Do boys eat better than girls in India? Longitudinal evidence on dietary diversity and food consumption disparities among children and adolescents pp. 99-111

Elisabetta Aurino

Volume 24, issue C, 2017

Malaria ecology, child mortality & fertility pp. 1-17

Gordon McCord, Dalton Conley and Jeffrey D. Sachs

Stature and long-term labor market outcomes: Evidence using Mendelian randomization pp. 18-29

Petri Böckerman, Jutta Viinikainen, Jari Vainiomäki, Mirka Hintsanen, Niina Pitkänen, Terho Lehtimäki, Jaakko Pehkonen, Suvi Rovio and Olli Raitakari

Effects of state contraceptive insurance mandates pp. 30-42

Angela Dills and Anca M. Grecu

The effects of prenatal testosterone on wages: Evidence from Russia pp. 43-60

John Nye, Maksym Bryukhanov, Ekaterina Kochergina, Ekaterina Orel, Sergiy Polyachenko and Maria Yudkevich

Obesity: A major problem for Spanish minors pp. 61-73

Manel Antelo, Pilar Magdalena and Juan Reboredo

Effects of drought on child health in Marsabit District, Northern Kenya pp. 74-79

Jan M. Bauer and Samuel Mburu

Hearing loss and disability exit: Measurement issues and coping strategies pp. 80-91

Vibeke Tornhøj Christensen and Nabanita Datta Gupta

Parental misclassification of child overweight/obese status: The role of parental education and parental weight status pp. 92-103

John Cullinan and John Cawley

The biological standard of living in pre-modern Korea: Determinants of height of militia recruits during the Chosŏn dynasty pp. 104-110

Seong Ho Jun, James Lewis and Daniel Schwekendiek

The perils of climate change: In utero exposure to temperature variability and birth outcomes in the Andean region pp. 111-124

Oswaldo Molina and Victor Saldarriaga

Revisiting the relationship between wages and sleep duration: The role of insomnia pp. 125-139

Golnaz Sedigh, Rose Anne Devlin, Gilles Grenier and Catherine Deri Armstrong

The intergenerational transmission of body mass index across countries pp. 140-152

Peter Dolton and Mimi Xiao

Two worlds apart: Determinants of height in late 18th century central Mexico pp. 153-163

Rafael Dobado-González and Alfredo Garcia-Hiernaux

The effects of prospective mate quality on investments in healthy body weight among single women pp. 164-183

Matthew Harris and Christopher Cronin

Geographic determinants of individual obesity risk in Spain: A multilevel approach pp. 185-193

Athina Raftopoulou

Volume 23, issue C, 2016

What women want in their sperm donor: A study of more than 1000 women’s sperm donor selections pp. 1-9

Stephen Whyte, Benno Torgler and Keith L. Harrison

The obesity penalty in the labor market using longitudinal Canadian data pp. 10-17

Filmer Chu and Arto Ohinmaa

Individual health and the visibility of village economic inequality: Longitudinal evidence from native Amazonians in Bolivia pp. 18-26

Eduardo A. Undurraga, Veronica Nica, Rebecca Zhang, Irene C. Mensah and Ricardo A. Godoy

Healthy(?), wealthy, and wise: Birth order and adult health pp. 27-45

Sandra Black, Paul Devereux and Kjell G Salvanes

Obesity and health-related decisions: An empirical model of the determinants of weight status across the transition from adolescence to young adulthood pp. 46-62

Leonardo Morales, Penny Gordon-Larsen and David Guilkey

Climatic conditions and child height: Sex-specific vulnerability and the protective effects of sanitation and food markets in Nepal pp. 63-75

Prajula Mulmi, Steven Block, Gerald Shively and William Masters

Alcohol consumption by youth: Peers, parents, or prices? pp. 76-83

Gbenga Ajilore, Aliaksandr Amialchuk and Kevin Egan

Maternal employment and childhood overweight in Germany pp. 84-102

Sophie-Charlotte Meyer

Transgenerational effects of childhood conditions on third generation health and education outcomes pp. 103-120

Gerard van den Berg and Pia Pinger

Genes and the intergenerational transmission of BMI and obesity pp. 121-133

Timothy J. Classen and Owen Thompson

Intergenerational persistence of health: Do immigrants get healthier as they remain in the U.S. for more generations? pp. 136-148

Mevlude Akbulut-Yuksel and Adriana Kugler

Is treatment “intensity” associated with healthier lifestyle choices? An application of the dose response function pp. 149-163

Eleonora Fichera, Richard Emsley and Matt Sutton

A cut above the rest? Private anthropometrics in marriage markets pp. 164-179

Nicholas Wilson and Martha Janicki

Labor market consequences of childhood onset type 1 diabetes pp. 180-192

Sofie Persson, Ulf-G. Gerdtham and Katarina Steen Carlsson

The effect of military deployment on mental health pp. 193-208

Stéphanie Vincent Lyk-Jensen, Cecilie Weatherall and Peter Winning Jepsen

Obesity and the labor market: A fresh look at the weight penalty pp. 209-225

Marco Caliendo and Markus Gehrsitz

Towards an anthropometric history of latin America in the second half of the twentieth century pp. 226-234

Amílcar E. Challú and Sergio Silva-Castañeda

Disease externalities and net nutrition: Evidence from changes in sanitation and child height in Cambodia, 2005–2010 pp. 235-245

Sangita Vyas, Phyrum Kov, Susanna Smets and Dean Spears

Misfortunes never come singly: Structural change, multiple shocks and child malnutrition in rural Senegal pp. 246-262

Sara Lazzaroni and Natascha Wagner

Effectiveness of weight loss intervention in highly-motivated people pp. 263-282

Mariétou H. Ouayogodé