Economics & Human Biology

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Volume 10, issue 4, 2012

Within-family variation in obesity pp. 333-339

Joseph Price and Jeffrey Swigert

Parental employment, family routines and childhood obesity pp. 340-351

Patricia Anderson

Maternal employment and childhood obesity: A search for mechanisms in time use data pp. 352-364

John Cawley and Feng Liu

Family mealtimes: A contextual approach to understanding childhood obesity pp. 365-374

Barbara H. Fiese, Amber Hammons and Diana Grigsby-Toussaint

Obesity, family instability, and socioemotional health in adolescence pp. 375-384

Robert Crosnoe

Adolescent obesity and life satisfaction: Perceptions of self, peers, family, and school pp. 385-394

Renata Forste and Erin Moore

The relationship between body mass index and unhealthy weight control behaviors among adolescents: The role of family and peer social support pp. 395-404

Jillon S. Vander Wal

The effect of fat mass on educational attainment: Examining the sensitivity to different identification strategies pp. 405-418

Stephanie von Hinke, George Davey Smith, Debbie A. Lawlor, Carol Propper and Frank Windmeijer

The psychological consequences of weight change trajectories: Evidence from quantitative and qualitative data pp. 419-430

Deborah Carr and Karen Jaffe

Marriage, gender and obesity in later life pp. 431-453

Sven E. Wilson

Volume 10, issue 3, 2012

Undernutrition, subsequent risk of mortality and civil war in Burundi pp. 221-231

Philip Verwimp

Socioeconomic disparities and the familial coexistence of child stunting and maternal overweight in guatemala pp. 232-241

Jounghee Lee, Robert F. Houser, Aviva Must, Patricia Palma de Fulladolsa and Odilia I. Bermudez

Mental health and employment: The SAD story pp. 242-255

Nathan Tefft

Weight and earnings among childbearing women in Metropolitan Cebu, Philippines (1983–2002) pp. 256-263

M. Arantxa Colchero and David Bishai

The evolution of adult height across Spanish regions, 1950–1980: A new source of data pp. 264-275

Climent Quintana-Domeque, Carlos Bozzoli and Mariano Bosch

The health transition and biological living standards: Adult height and mortality in 20th-century Spain pp. 276-288

Jeroen J.A. Spijker, Antonio D. Cámara and Amand Blanes

Height and subjective well-being in Italy pp. 289-298

Vincenzo Carrieri and Maria De Paola

Dairy products and physical stature: A systematic review and meta-analysis of controlled trials pp. 299-309

Hans de Beer

Secular changes in the height of Polish schoolboys from 1955 to 1988 pp. 310-317

Emily M. Bielecki, Jere D. Haas and Barbara Hulanicka

Valuing mother and child health: The intrauterine environment pp. 318-328

Stefanos Nastis and Thomas D. Crocker

Volume 10, issue 2, 2012

Smoking and body weight: Evidence using genetic instruments pp. 113-126

George L. Wehby, Jeffrey C. Murray, Allen Wilcox and Rolv T. Lie

Future direct and indirect costs of obesity and the influence of gaining weight: Results from the MONICA/KORA cohort studies, 1995–2005 pp. 127-138

S.B. Wolfenstetter

The declining prevalence of overweight among Russian children: Income, diet, and physical activity behavior changes pp. 139-146

Lisa Jahns, Linda Adair, Thomas Mroz and Barry M. Popkin

Economic growth and obesity: An interesting relationship with world-wide implications pp. 147-153

Garry Egger, Boyd Swinburn and F.M. Amirul Islam

Social inequality and the biological standard of living: An anthropometric analysis of Swiss conscription data, 1875–1950 pp. 154-173

Tobias Schoch, Kaspar Staub and Christian Pfister

Differences in nutritional outcomes between Brazilian white and black children pp. 174-188

Mauricio Reis

The role of parental investments for cognitive and noncognitive skill formation—Evidence for the first 11 years of life pp. 189-209

Katja Coneus, Manfred Laucht and Karsten Reuß

Height and cognitive achievement among Indian children pp. 210-219

Dean Spears

Volume 10, issue 1, 2012

The effect of fast-food availability on fast-food consumption and obesity among rural residents: An analysis by race/ethnicity pp. 1-13

Richard Dunn, Joseph R. Sharkey and Scott Horel

Body weight and wages: Evidence from Add Health pp. 14-19

Joseph J. Sabia and Daniel Rees

The influence of body weight on social network ties among adolescents pp. 20-34

Mir M. Ali, Aliaksandr Amialchuk and John Rizzo

Obesity and diabetes, the built environment, and the ‘local’ food economy in the United States, 2007 pp. 35-42

Matthew Salois

Height and death in the Antebellum United States: A view through the lens of geographically weighted regression pp. 43-53

Dongwoo Yoo

Climate variability and child height in rural Mexico pp. 54-73

Emmanuel Skoufias and Katja Vinha

Disability incidence and official health status transitions in Russia pp. 74-88

Charles M. Becker and Irina S. Merkuryeva

The intergenerational transmission of health in early childhood—Evidence from the German Socio-Economic Panel Study pp. 89-97

Katja Coneus and Katharina Spiess

Cognitive disparities, lead plumbing, and water chemistry: Prior exposure to water-borne lead and intelligence test scores among World War Two U.S. Army enlistees pp. 98-111

Joseph P. Ferrie, Karen Rolf and Werner Troesken

Volume 9, issue 4, 2011

Measuring weight outcomes for obesity intervention strategies: The case of a sugar-sweetened beverage tax pp. 329-341

Biing-Hwan Lin, Travis Smith, Jonq-Ying Lee and Kevin D. Hall

Overweight and poor? On the relationship between income and the body mass index pp. 342-355

Dean Jolliffe

Fat, muscles, and wages pp. 356-363

Christiane Bozoyan and Tobias Wolbring

Does access to fast food lead to super-sized pregnant women and whopper babies? pp. 364-380

Aparna Lhila

Direct and indirect effects of body weight on adult wages pp. 381-392

Euna Han, Edward Norton and Lisa M. Powell

Tall claims: Mortality selection and the height of children in India pp. 393-406

Harold Alderman, Michael Lokshin and Sergiy Radyakin

Why does height matter for educational attainment? Evidence from German children pp. 407-418

Francesco Cinnirella, Marc Piopiunik and Joachim Winter

Comparing population distributions from bin-aggregated sample data: An application to historical height data from France pp. 419-437

Jean-Yves Duclos, Josée Leblanc and David Sahn

Edouard Mallet's early and almost forgotten study of the average height of Genevan conscripts in 1835 pp. 438-442

Kaspar Staub, Frank J. Rühli, Barry Bogin, Ulrich Woitek and Christian Pfister

Is population growth conducive to the sustainability of cooperation? pp. 443-451

Oded Stark and Marcin Jakubek

Volume 9, issue 3, 2011

Exposure to food advertising on television: Associations with children's fast food and soft drink consumption and obesity pp. 221-233

Tatiana Andreyeva, Inas Kelly and Jennifer L. Harris

The trend of BMI values of US adults by deciles, birth cohorts 1882-1986 stratified by gender and ethnicity pp. 234-250

John Komlos and Marek Brabec

Early-life environment, height and BMI of young men in Italy pp. 251-264

Franco Peracchi and Emilia Arcaleni

Physical stature of men in eighteenth century Mexico: Evidence from Puebla pp. 265-271

Agustín Grajales-Porras and Moramay López-Alonso

Socio-economic status and z-score standardized height-for-age of U.S.-born children (ages 2-6) pp. 272-276

Brian Karl Finch and Audrey N. Beck

Anthropometric history of the French Revolution in the Province of Orleans pp. 277-283

Hermann Schubert

Stature and robusticity during the agricultural transition: Evidence from the bioarchaeological record pp. 284-301

Amanda Mummert, Emily Esche, Joshua Robinson and George J. Armelagos

Relative weight-related costs of healthcare use by children--Results from the two German birth cohorts, GINI-plus and LISA-plus pp. 302-315

Ariane Breitfelder, Christina M. Wenig, Silke B. Wolfenstetter, Peter Rzehak, Petra Menn, Juergen John, Reiner Leidl, Carl Peter Bauer, Sibylle Koletzko, Stefan Röder, Olf Herbarth, Andrea von Berg, Dietrich Berdel, Ursula Krämer, Beate Schaaf, H.-Erich Wichmann and Joachim Heinrich

Willingness to pay for obesity prevention pp. 316-324

Tsu-Tan Fu, Yih-Ming Lin and Chung L. Huang

Living Standards in Latin American History. Height, Welfare, and Development, 1750-2000, R.D. Salvatore, J.H. Coatsworth, A.E. Challú (Eds.), Harvard University Press and the David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies, Cambridge, Massachusetts, London (2010). 313 pp., by A.D. Cámara, ISBN: 978-0-674-05585-8 pp. 325-328

Antonio D. Cámara

Volume 9, issue 2, 2011

Peer effects and the Freshman 15: Evidence from a natural experiment pp. 119-132

Olga Yakusheva, Kandice Kapinos and Marianne Weiss

How (much) do food prices contribute to obesity in Russia? pp. 133-147

Matthias Staudigel

Do body weight and gender shape the work force? The case of Iceland pp. 148-156

Tinna Laufey Asgeirsdottir

Height of female Americans in the 19th century and the antebellum puzzle pp. 157-164

Scott Alan Carson

Upward and onward: High-society American women eluded the antebellum puzzle pp. 165-171

Marco Sunder

Modeling the effects of physician emigration on human development pp. 172-183

Alok Bhargava, Frédéric Docquier and Yasser Moullan

Patterns and trends of adult height in India in 2005-2006 pp. 184-193

Jessica M. Perkins, Kashif T. Khan, George Davey Smith and S.V. Subramanian

Childhood circumstances and height among older adults in the United States pp. 194-202

Reginald D. Tucker-Seeley and S.V. Subramanian

The physical stature of Jewish men in Poland in the second half of the 19th century pp. 203-210

Michal Kopczynski

Secular changes in the height of the inhabitants of Anatolia (Turkey) from the 10th millennium B.C. to the 20th century A.D pp. 211-219

Basak Koca Özer, Mehmet SagIr and Ismail Özer

Volume 9, issue 1, 2011

Can Food Stamps help to reduce Medicare spending on diabetes? pp. 1-13

Lauren Nicholas

Modeling the long term health outcomes and cost-effectiveness of two interventions promoting fruit and vegetable intake among schoolchildren pp. 14-22

Saskia J. te Velde, J. Lennert Veerman, Nannah I. Tak, Judith E. Bosmans, Knut-Inge Klepp and Johannes Brug

Patterns and correlates of adult height in Sri Lanka pp. 23-29

Priyanga Ranasinghe, M.A. Naveen A.A.D. Jayawardana, Godwin R. Constantine, M.H. Rezvi Sheriff, David R. Matthews and Prasad Katulanda

The relationship between height and economic development in Spain, 1850-1958 pp. 30-44

Ramón Maria-Dolores and José Martínez-Carrión

Did African Americans experience the [`]Antebellum Puzzle'? Evidence from the United States Colored Troops during the Civil War pp. 45-55

Michael Haines, Lee Craig and Thomas Weiss

Does prenatal healthcare improve child birthweight outcomes in Azerbaijan? Results of the national Demographic and Health Survey pp. 56-65

Nazim N. Habibov and Lida Fan

Effects and determinants of mild underweight among preschool children across countries and over time pp. 66-77

Priya Bhagowalia, Susan Chen and William Masters

The determinants of misreporting weight and height: The role of social norms pp. 78-91

Joan Gil and Toni Mora

Why does the Great Chinese Famine affect the male and female survivors differently? Mortality selection versus son preference pp. 92-105

Ren Mu and Xiaobo Zhang

Waaler revisited: The anthropometrics of mortality pp. 106-117

Daniel Koch