Economics & Human Biology

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Volume 14, issue C, 2014

The effect of physical activity on adult obesity: Evidence from the Canadian NPHS panel pp. 1-21

Sisira Sarma, Gregory S. Zaric, M. Karen Campbell and Jason Gilliland

Sleep behavior and unemployment conditions pp. 22-32

Marina Antillón, Diane S. Lauderdale and John Mullahy

Macronutrients and obesity: Revisiting the calories in, calories out framework pp. 33-49

Daniel Riera-Crichton and Nathan Tefft

Child care choices, food intake, and children's obesity status in the United States pp. 50-61

Bidisha Mandal and Lisa M. Powell

Life cycle development of obesity and its determinants in six European countries pp. 62-78

Sandra Cavaco, Tor Eriksson and Ali Skalli

The interplay between gender, race and weight status: Self perceptions and social consequences pp. 79-91

Jason Fletcher

Examining the temporal relationships between childhood obesity and asthma pp. 92-102

Tiffany L. Green

Estimating male and female height inequality pp. 103-108

Matthias Blum

Economic development, urbanization, technological change and overweight: What do we learn from 244 Demographic and Health Surveys? pp. 109-127

Yevgeniy Goryakin and Marc Suhrcke

Spatial mobility and environmental effects on obesity pp. 128-140

Zhenxiang Zhao, Robert Kaestner and Xin Xu

High frequency body mass measurement, feedback, and health behaviors pp. 141-153

Peter Kooreman and Annette Scherpenzeel

Volume 13, issue C, 2014

Was the economic crisis of 2008 good for Icelanders? Impact on health behaviors pp. 1-19

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

The difference-in-difference method: Assessing the selection bias in the effects of neighborhood environment on health pp. 20-33

Irina Grafova, Vicki A. Freedman, Nicole Lurie, Rizie Kumar and Jeannette Rogowski

How effective are public health departments at preventing mortality? pp. 34-45

Timothy Tyler Brown

Education policies and health inequalities: Evidence from changes in the distribution of Body Mass Index in France, 1981–2003 pp. 46-65

Fabrice Etilé

Income inequalities in unhealthy life styles in England and Spain pp. 66-75

Joan Costa-Font, Cristina Hernández-Quevedo and Dolores Jiménez-Rubio

Testosterone is associated with self-employment among Australian men pp. 76-84

Francis J. Greene, Liang Han, Sean Martin, Song Zhang and Gary Wittert

Height, weight, and entry earnings of female graduates in Taiwan pp. 85-98

Hung-Lin Tao

Mendelian randomization in health research: Using appropriate genetic variants and avoiding biased estimates pp. 99-106

Amy E. Taylor, Neil M. Davies, Jennifer J. Ware, Tyler VanderWeele, George Davey Smith and Marcus R. Munafò

The impact of pharmaceutical innovation on longevity and medical expenditure in France, 2000–2009 pp. 107-127

Frank Lichtenberg

The dynamics of food, alcohol and cigarette consumption in Russia during transition pp. 128-143

Thomas Herzfeld, Sonya Huffman and Marian Rizov

Interactive effects of in utero nutrition and genetic inheritance on cognition: New evidence using sibling comparisons pp. 144-154

Justin Cook and Jason Fletcher

A six decades long follow-up on body size in adolescents from Zagreb, Croatia (1951–2010) pp. 155-164

Matea Zajc Petranović, Željka Tomas, Nina Smolej Narančić, Tatjana Škarić-Jurić, Andrea Veček and Jasna Miličić

Volume 12, issue C, 2014

In memory of Robert William Fogel pp. 1-3

Richard Steckel

Food prices and body fatness among youths pp. 4-19

Michael Grossman, Erdal Tekin and Roy Wada

Regional differences in overweight rates: The case of Italian regions pp. 20-29

Giorgio Brunello and Giovanna Labartino

Obesity persistence and duration dependence: Evidence from a cohort of US adults (1985–2010) pp. 30-44

Joan Daouli, Apostolos Davillas, Michael Demoussis and Nicholas Giannakopoulos

The effect of school district nutrition policies on dietary intake and overweight: A synthetic control approach pp. 45-55

Sebastian Bauhoff

Development of BMI values of German children and their healthcare costs pp. 56-66

Ariane Batscheider, Peter Rzehak, Christina M. Teuner, Silke B. Wolfenstetter, Reiner Leidl, Andrea von Berg, Dietrich Berdel, Barbara Hoffmann and Joachim Heinrich

Variation in the relationship between BMI and survival by socioeconomic status in Great Britain pp. 67-82

Jonas Minet Kinge and Stephen Morris

Intertemporal discounting as a risk factor for high BMI: Evidence from Australia, 2008 pp. 83-97

Mark C. Dodd

Obesogenic environmental influences on young adults: Evidence from college dormitory assignments pp. 98-109

Kandice A. Kapinos, Olga Yakusheva and Daniel Eisenberg

The effect of fast-food restaurants on childhood obesity: A school level analysis pp. 110-119

Pedro Alviola, Rodolfo Nayga, Michael R. Thomsen, Diana Danforth and James Smartt

Neighborhood socioeconomic status and BMI differences by immigrant and legal status: Evidence from Utah pp. 120-131

Ming Wen and Thomas Maloney

Weight perceptions, weight control and income: An analysis using British data pp. 132-139

David Johnston and Grace Lordan

Racial differences in the influence of female adolescents’ body size on dating and sex pp. 140-152

Mir M. Ali, John Rizzo, Aliaksandr Amialchuk and Frank Heiland

Personality disorders and body weight pp. 153-171

Johanna Maclean, Haiyong Xu, Michael T. French and Susan L. Ettner

Volume 11, issue 4, 2013

Bayesian modeling of the evolution of male height in 18th century Finland from incomplete data pp. 405-415

Antti Penttinen, Elena Moltchanova and Ilkka Nummela

Anthropometric measurements by ethnicity in Colombia, 1965–1990 pp. 416-425

Karina Acosta and A Meisel

Height in mid childhood and psychosocial competencies in late childhood: Evidence from four developing countries pp. 426-432

Stefan Dercon and Alan Sanchez

Wealthier Jews, taller Gentiles: Inequality of income and physical stature in fin-de-siècle Hungary pp. 433-435

Dániel Bolgár

The influence of inequality on the standard of living: Worldwide anthropometric evidence from the 19th and 20th centuries pp. 436-452

Matthias Blum

The biological standard of living and mortality in Central Italy at the beginning of the 19th century pp. 453-464

Michela Coppola

Height, socioeconomic status and marriage in Italy around 1900 pp. 465-473

Matteo Manfredini, Marco Breschi, Alessio Fornasin and Chiara Seghieri

Identifying the intergenerational effects of the 1959–1961 Chinese Great Leap Forward Famine on infant mortality pp. 474-487

Shige Song

Stature, migration and human welfare in South China, 1850–1930 pp. 488-501

W. Peter Ward

In urban South Africa, 16 year old adolescents experience greater health equality than children pp. 502-514

Paula L. Griffiths, William Johnson, Noël Cameron, John M. Pettifor and Shane A. Norris

The allometry of metabolism and stature: Worker fatigue and height in the Tanzanian labor market pp. 515-521

Gregory Price

Body mass index, waist circumference and employment: Evidence from older Irish adults pp. 522-533

Irene Mosca

An investigation into the effect of type I and type II diabetes duration on employment and wages pp. 534-544

Travis Minor

The lunar cycle, sunspots and the frequency of births in Germany, 1920–1989 pp. 545-550

Thomas Bauer, Stefan Bender, Jörg Heining and Christoph Schmidt

Stature, body mass, and brain size: A two-million-year odyssey pp. 551-562

Andrew Gallagher

Dual burden households and intra-household nutritional inequality in Indonesia pp. 563-573

Cornelia Roemling and Matin Qaim

Can adherence to dietary guidelines address excess caloric intake? An empirical assessment for the UK pp. 574-591

Chittur Srinivasan

Volume 11, issue 3, 2013

The height gap in 19th-century America: Net-nutritional advantage of the elite increased at the onset of modern economic growth pp. 245-258

Marco Sunder

Pitirim A. Sorokin's early contributions to the development of anthropometric history pp. 259-268

Peter A. Coclanis

Was what ail’d ya what kill’d ya? pp. 269-280

Robert Fogel, Louis Cain, Joseph Burton and Brian Bettenhausen

Fetal and infant origins of diabetes and ill health: Evidence from Puerto Rico's 1928 and 1932 hurricanes pp. 281-293

Orlando Sotomayor

Urban–rural disparities of child health and nutritional status in China from 1989 to 2006 pp. 294-309

Hong Liu, Hai Fang and Zhong Zhao

Early education and health outcomes of a 2001 U.S. Birth Cohort pp. 310-325

Clive R. Belfield and Inas Kelly

Age trends in prevalence of cardiovascular risk factors in Roma minority population of Croatia pp. 326-336

Hrvojka Marija Zeljko, Tatjana Škarić-Jurić, Nina Smolej Narančić, Ana Barešić, Željka Tomas, Matea Zajc Petranović, Jasna Miličić, Marijana Peričić Salihović and Branka Janićijević

Absolute wealth and world region strongly predict overweight among women (ages 18–49) in 360 populations across 36 developing countries pp. 337-344

Daniel J. Hruschka and Alexandra A. Brewis

Intercontinental differences in overweight of adopted Koreans in the United States and Europe pp. 345-350

Stanley Ulijaszek and Daniel Schwekendiek

Associations of mortality with own height using son's height as an instrumental variable pp. 351-359

David Carslake, Abigail Fraser, George Davey Smith, Margaret May, Tom Palmer, Jonathan Sterne, Karri Silventoinen, Per Tynelius, Debbie A. Lawlor and Finn Rasmussen

The Jewish Advantage and Household Security: Life Expectancy among 19th Century Sephardim of Gibraltar pp. 360-370

Lawrence A. Sawchuk, Lianne Tripp and Ulianna Melnychenko

Maternal bereavement: The heightened mortality of mothers after the death of a child pp. 371-381

Javier Espinosa and William Evans

Why pigs are important in Papua? Wealth, height and reproductive success among the Yali tribe of West Papua pp. 382-390

Piotr Sorokowski, Agnieszka Sorokowska and Dariusz P. Danel

Sibling composition during childhood and adult blood pressure among native Amazonians in Bolivia pp. 391-400

Wu Zeng, Eduardo A. Undurraga, Colleen Nyberg, Dan T.A. Eisenberg, Sabita Parida, Ariela Zycherman, Oyunbileg Magvanjav, Victoria Reyes-García, Susan Tanner and Ricardo Godoy

Volume 11, issue 2, 2013

Fat chance! Obesity and the transition from unemployment to employment pp. 121-133

Marco Caliendo and Wang-Sheng Lee

Fast food prices, obesity, and the minimum wage pp. 134-147

Chad Cotti and Nathan Tefft

Catching up from early nutritional deficits? Evidence from rural Ethiopia pp. 148-163

Ingo Outes-Leon and Catherine Porter

Combining insights from quantile and ordinal regression: Child malnutrition in Guatemala pp. 164-177

Stuart Sweeney, Frank Davenport and Kathryn Grace

The association of adolescent socioeconomic position and adult height: Variation across racial/ethnic groups pp. 178-184

Tracy K. Richmond, Courtney E. Walls and S.V. Subramanian

Associations between household income, height, and BMI in contemporary US schoolchildren pp. 185-196

Jason Murasko

The association between adolescent height and student school satisfaction: Recent evidence from Catalonia pp. 197-200

Toni Mora

Interpreting estimates of heritability – A note on the twin decomposition pp. 201-205

Anders Stenberg

Crisis-induced depression, physical activity and dietary intake among young adults: Evidence from the 9/11 terrorist attacks pp. 206-220

Yang Wang and Muzhe Yang

The timing of sexual maturation among boys and girls in eastern Poland, 1980–2000: A rural–urban comparison pp. 221-226

Helena Popławska, Adam Wilczewski, Agnieszka Dmitruk and Wojciech Hołub

Adult obesity: Panel study from native Amazonians pp. 227-235

Wu Zeng, Dan T.A. Eisenberg, Karla Rubio Jovel, Eduardo A. Undurraga, Colleen Nyberg, Susan Tanner, Victoria Reyes-García, William R. Leonard, Juliana Castaño, Tomás Huanca, Thomas W. McDade and Ricardo Godoy

Symmetry of the face in old age reflects childhood social status pp. 236-244

David Hope, Timothy Bates, Lars Penke, Alan J. Gow, John M. Starr and Ian J. Deary

Volume 11, issue 1, 2013

Immigrants’ acculturation and changes in Body Mass Index pp. 1-7

Tor Iversen, Ching-to Ma and Haakon E. Meyer

The association of obesity with the likelihood of arrest for young adults pp. 8-17

David Kalist and Freddy Siahaan

Effects of the built environment on childhood obesity: The case of urban recreational trails and crime pp. 18-29

Robert Sandy, Rusty Tchernis, Jeffrey Wilson, Gilbert Liu and Xilin Zhou

The relationship between height and neighborhood context across racial/ethnic groups: A multi-level analysis of the 1999–2004 U.S. National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey pp. 30-41

D. Phuong Do, Daphne C. Watkins, Martin Hiermeyer and Brian K. Finch

The effect of low birth weight on height, weight and behavioral outcomes in the medium-run pp. 42-55

Nabanita Datta Gupta, Mette Deding and Mette Lausten

Birthweight outcomes in Bolivia: The role of maternal height, ethnicity, and behavior pp. 56-68

Marcelo Delajara and Florian Wendelspiess Chávez Juárez

Ladies from Hell, Aberdeen Free Gardeners, and the Russian influenza: An anthropometric analysis of WWI-era Scottish soldiers and civilians pp. 69-77

Paul Riggs and Timothy Cuff

Indonesian regional welfare development, 1900–1990: New anthropometric evidence pp. 78-89

Péter Földvári, Bas van Leeuwen, Daan Marks and Jozsef Gall

Body mass, wealth, and inequality in the 19th century: Joining the debate surrounding equality and health pp. 90-94

Scott Alan Carson

Food prices and blood cholesterol pp. 95-107

Ilya Rahkovsky and Christian Gregory

Iron status, malaria parasite loads and food policies: Evidence from sub-Saharan Africa pp. 108-112

Alok Bhargava