Economics & Human Biology

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Volume 22, issue C, 2016

Effects of food price shocks on child malnutrition: The Mozambican experience 2008/2009 pp. 1-13

Channing Arndt, M. Azhar Hussain, Vincenzo Salvucci and Lars Peter Østerdal

Economic cycles and child mortality: A cross-national study of the least developed countries pp. 14-23

Salvador Pérez-Moreno, Carmen Blanco-Arana and Elena Barcena-Martin

Beauty, body size and wages: Evidence from a unique data set pp. 24-34

Sonia Oreffice and Climent Quintana-Domeque

Migrants, health, and happiness: Evidence that health assessments travel with migrants and predict well-being pp. 35-46

Martin Ljunge

Gender bias in nineteenth-century England: Evidence from factory children pp. 47-64

Sara Horrell and Deborah Oxley

Early life height and weight production functions with endogenous energy and protein inputs pp. 65-81

Esteban Puentes, Fan Wang, Jere Behrman, Flavio Cunha, John Hoddinott, John Maluccio, Linda S. Adair, Judith B. Borja, Reynaldo Martorell and Aryeh D. Stein

The incidence of calorie labeling on fast food choices: A comparison between stated preferences and actual choices pp. 82-93

Maria Loureiro and Djamal Rahmani

The self-medication hypothesis: Evidence from terrorism and cigarette accessibility pp. 94-102

Michael Pesko and Christopher Baum

Effects of the great recession on drugs consumption in Spain pp. 103-116

Nicolau Martin Bassols and Judit Vall Castello

Body mass index and employment status: A new look pp. 117-125

Jonas Minet Kinge

On the relationship between economic conditions around the time of birth and late life cognitive abilities: Evidence from Taiwan pp. 126-139

Wen-Yi Chen

The biological standard of living in Suriname, c. 1870–1975 pp. 140-154

Hans de Beer

Height of Northern Jordanian middle-class adults, born 1960–1990 in the response to improving socio-economic conditions pp. 155-160

Ahmad Yosuf Abu Dalou

Decomposing racial differences in adolescent smoking in the U.S pp. 161-176

Vikesh Amin and Aparna Lhila

How does social capital matter to the health status of older adults? Evidence from the China Health and Retirement Longitudinal Survey pp. 177-189

Gordon G. Liu, Xindong Xue, Chenxi Yu and Yafeng Wang

Orphanhood and fertility in young adults: Evidence from South Africa pp. 190-200

Carlos Bozzoli

Effects of maternal depression on family food insecurity pp. 201-215

Kelly Noonan, Hope Corman and Nancy E. Reichman

Disentangling effects of socioeconomic status on obesity: A cross-sectional study of the Spanish adult population pp. 216-224

María Merino Ventosa and Urbanos-Garrido, Rosa M.maria.merino.ven@gmail.com

Volume 21, issue C, 2016

What doesn't kill you makes you poorer: Adult wages and early-life mortality in India pp. 1-16

Nicholas Lawson and Dean Spears

What has driven the decline of infant mortality in Kenya in the 2000s? pp. 17-32

Gabriel Demombynes and Sofia Trommlerová

Labour market participation after breast cancer for employees from the private and public sectors: Educational and sector gradients in the effect of cancer pp. 33-55

Christophe Kolodziejczyk and Eskil Heinesen

Stroke-attributable death among older persons during the great recession pp. 56-63

April Falconi, Alison Gemmill, Deborah Karasek, Julia Goodman, Beth Anderson, Murray Lee, Benjamin Bellows and Ralph Catalano

Middle school transition and body weight outcomes: Evidence from Arkansas Public Schoolchildren pp. 64-74

Di Zeng, Michael R. Thomsen, Rodolfo Nayga and Heather L. Rouse

Body mass index values of conscripts in the Polish lands under Prussian rule in the late 19th and early 20th centuries pp. 75-83

Grażyna Liczbińska, Zbigniew Czapla, Oskar Nowak and Janusz Piontek

Health and entrepreneurship in four Caribbean Basin countries pp. 84-89

Cornelius A. Rietveld, Henry Bailey, Jolanda Hessels and Peter van der Zwan

Biological costs of economic transition: Stress levels during the transition from communism to capitalism in Poland pp. 90-99

Anna Lipowicz, Alicja Szklarska and Andrzej W. Mitas

The long-run effect of education on obesity in the US pp. 100-109

Young-Joo Kim

Impact of the Fukushima nuclear accident on obesity of children in Japan (2008–2014) pp. 110-121

Eiji Yamamura

Time discounting, present biases, and health-related behaviors: Evidence from Japan pp. 122-136

Myong-Il Kang and Shinsuke Ikeda

On the genetic bias of the quarter of birth instrument pp. 137-146

Cornelius A. Rietveld and Dinand Webbink

Family chaos and lack of mealtime planning is associated with food insecurity in low income households pp. 147-155

Barbara H. Fiese, Craig Gundersen, Brenda Koester and Blake Jones

Short- and long-run associations between birth weight and children's height pp. 156-166

Aditi Krishna, Günther Fink, Lisa F. Berkman and S.V. Subramanian

An adaptive significance of morning sickness? Trivers–Willard and Hyperemesis Gravidarum pp. 167-171

Douglas Almond, Lena Edlund, Michael Joffe and Mårten Palme

Major correlates of male height: A study of 105 countries pp. 172-195

P. Grasgruber, M. Sebera, E. Hrazdíra, J. Cacek and T. Kalina

Labor market effects of intrauterine exposure to nutritional deficiency: Evidence from administrative data on Muslim immigrants in Denmark pp. 196-209

Marie Louise Schultz-Nielsen, Erdal Tekin and Jane Greve

Secular growth trends among children in Beijing (1955–2010) pp. 210-220

Ruoran Lu, Xiaopeng Zeng, Jiali Duan, Ting Gao, Da Huo, Tao Zhou, Yi Song, Ying Deng and Xiuhua Guo

Antiretroviral therapy and demand for HIV testing: Evidence from Zambia pp. 221-240

Nicholas Wilson

Volume 20, issue C, 2016

The effect of smoking habit changes on body weight: Evidence from the UK pp. 1-13

Luca Pieroni and Luca Salmasi

A comparison of diagnosed and undiagnosed diabetes patients and labor supply pp. 14-25

Travis Minor and Joanna P. MacEwan

Does obesity influence labour market outcomes among working-age adults? Evidence from Canadian longitudinal data pp. 26-41

Samantha L. Larose, Koffi A. Kpelitse, M. Karen Campbell, Gregory S. Zaric and Sisira Sarma

Obesity, job satisfaction and disability at older ages in Europe pp. 42-54

Ricardo Pagan Rodriguez, Carmen Ordóñez de Haro and Carlos Rivas Sánchez

Height and calories in early childhood pp. 55-69

Andrew Griffen

Parents’ education and child body weight in France: The trajectory of the gradient in the early years pp. 70-89

Bénédicte Apouey and Pierre Geoffard

Lifecycle effects of a recession on health behaviors: Boom, bust, and recovery in Iceland pp. 90-107

Tinna Laufey Ásgeirsdóttir, Hope Corman, Kelly Noonan and Nancy E. Reichman

Volume 19, issue C, 2015

The dynamics of health and its determinants among the elderly in developing countries pp. 1-12

Younoh Kim

Stature in 19th and early 20th century Copenhagen. A comparative study based on skeletal remains pp. 13-26

Marie Louise S. Jørkov

Reporting error in weight and its implications for bias in economic models pp. 27-44

John Cawley, Johanna Maclean, Mette Hammer and Neil Wintfeld

Changes in weight, length, head circumference, and ponderal index at birth of healthy term newborns in nine cities in China during the period of rapid social development 1985–2005 pp. 45-50

Ya-qin Zhang and Hui Li

The Tsimane’ Amazonian Panel Study (TAPS): Nine years (2002–2010) of annual data available to the public pp. 51-61

William R. Leonard, Victoria Reyes-García, Susan Tanner, Asher Rosinger, Alan Schultz, Vincent Vadez, Rebecca Zhang and Ricardo Godoy

Decomposing the effect of height on income in China: The role of market and political channels pp. 62-74

Eiji Yamamura, Russell Smyth and Yan Zhang

‘Mommy, I miss daddy’. The effect of family structure on children's health in Brazil pp. 75-89

Sara Ayllón and Natalia N. Ferreira-Batista

The intergenerational transmission of BMI in China pp. 90-113

Peter Dolton and Mimi Xiao

Inferring the economic standard of living and health from cohort height: Evidence from modern populations in developing countries pp. 114-128

Yoko Akachi and David Canning

Price elasticity of the demand for sugar sweetened beverages and soft drinks in Mexico pp. 129-137

M.A. Colchero, J.C. Salgado, M. Unar-Munguía, M. Hernández-Ávila and J.A. Rivera-Dommarco

Trends and correlates of age at menarche in Colombia: Results from a nationally representative survey pp. 138-144

Erica C. Jansen, Oscar F. Herrán and Eduardo Villamor

Education, gender, and state-level disparities in the health of older Indians: Evidence from biomarker data pp. 145-156

Jinkook Lee, Mark McGovern, David Bloom, P. Arokiasamy, Arun Risbud, O’Brien, Jennifer, Varsha Kale and Peifeng Hu

Retirement and cognitive development in the Netherlands: Are the retired really inactive? pp. 157-169

Andries de Grip, Arnaud Dupuy, Jelle Jolles and Martin van Boxtel

Did the 2009 American Recovery and Reinvestment Act affect dietary intake of low-income individuals? pp. 170-183

Geetha Waehrer, Partha Deb and Sandra L. Decker

Economic growth and the demand for dietary quality: Evidence from Russia during transition pp. 184-203

Christine Burggraf, Ramona Teuber, Stephan Brosig and Thomas Glauben

The impact of mothers’ earnings on health inputs and infant health pp. 204-223

Naci Mocan, Christian Raschke and Bulent Unel

Early intervention and child physical health: Evidence from a Dublin-based randomized controlled trial pp. 224-245

Orla Doyle, Nick Fitzpatrick, Judy Lovett and Caroline Rawdon

Overweight trends among Polish schoolchildren before and after the transition from communism to capitalism pp. 246-257

Aleksandra Gomula, Natalia Nowak-Szczepanska, Dariusz P. Danel and Slawomir Koziel

Socioeconomic development and secular trend in height in China pp. 258-264

Xin-Nan Zong, Hui Li, Hua-Hong Wu and Ya-Qin Zhang

Adjusting body mass for measurement error with invalid validation data pp. 275-293

Charles Courtemanche, Joshua Pinkston and Jay Stewart