Economics & Human Biology

2003 - 2025

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Volume 50, issue C, 2023

Intergenerational transmission of fertility in Spain among cohorts born during the first half of twentieth century

Miguel Requena and David Sven Reher

Studying informal care during the pandemic: mental health, gender and job status

Joan E. Madia, Francesco Moscone and Catia Nicodemo

“If my buddies use drugs, will I?” Peer effects on Substance Consumption Among Teenagers

Cristina Lopez-Mayan and Catia Nicodemo

Labour market implications of thyroid dysfunctions

Catia Montagna and Alexandros Zangelidis

The effect of paid parental leave on breastfeeding, parental health and behavior

Laetitia Lebihan and Charles Olivier Mao Takongmo

Family size and vaccination among older individuals: The case of COVID-19 vaccine

Eric Bonsang and Elizaveta Pronkina

The “Long-arm” of chronic conditions in childhood: Evidence from Canada using linked survey-administrative data

Emmanuelle Arpin, Claire de Oliveira, Arjumand Siddiqi and Audrey Laporte

War in Ukraine – Changing the Polish paediatric population as a consequence of forced migration (a preliminary study)

Łukasz Kryst, Magdalena Żegleń and Paulina Artymiak

Decoupling genetics from attainments: The role of social environments

Jason Fletcher

Economic development, intergenerational mobility, and health in South Korea

Yonsu Kim and Yongsoo Lee

The full distribution of adult height in Poland: Cohorts born between 1920 and 1996. The biological cost of the economic transition

Marcin Wroński

Old age takes its toll: Long-run projections of health-related public expenditure in Luxembourg

Gastón Giordana and Maria Pi Alperin

Self-control and unhealthy body weight: The role of impulsivity and restraint

Deborah Cobb-Clark, Sarah C. Dahmann, Daniel A. Kamhöfer and Hannah Schildberg-Hörisch

Does becoming an informal caregiver make your health worse? A longitudinal analysis across Europe

Luz María Peña Longobardo, Beatriz Rodríguez-Sánchez and Juan Oliva

Assessing the effectiveness of mandatory outdoor mask policy: The natural experiment of Campania

Vincenzo Alfano, Lorenzo Cicatiello and Salvatore Ercolano

The association between chronotype and wages at mid-age

Andrew Conlin, Iiro Nerg, Leena Ala-Mursula, Tapio Räihä and Marko Korhonen

Mobility restrictions and alcohol use during lockdown: “A still and dry pandemic for the many”?

Martina Celidoni, Joan Costa-Font and Luca Salmasi

You’ll never walk alone – The effects of walkability on pregnancy behaviors and outcomes

Karen S. Conway and Andrea K. Menclova

An investigation of body mass distributional changes in Australia, 1995–2017/18

Anushiya Vijayasivajie, Pundarik Mukhopadhaya and Chris Heaton

From pandemic to endemic: Spatial-temporal patterns of influenza-like illness incidence in a Swiss canton, 1918–1924

Marco Bernhard, Corina Leuch, Maryam Kordi, Oliver Gruebner, Katarina L. Matthes, Joël Floris and Kaspar Staub

Parental marriage and the non-cognitive abilities of infants and toddlers: Survey findings from China Family Panel Studies

Ying Li, Xiaoqing Tang, Hualei Yang and Yixiao Liu

The height premium: A systematic review and meta-analysis

Kristina Thompson, France Portrait and Linda Schoonmade

The effect of “smoky” coal bans on chronic lung disease among older people in Ireland

Sean Lyons, Likun Mao, Anne Nolan and O’Sullivan, Vincent

In utero and childhood exposure to alcohol and old age mortality: Evidence from the temperance movement in the US

Hamid Noghanibehambari and Jason Fletcher

Early socioeconomic status, social mobility and cognitive trajectories in later life: A life course perspective

Zhu Huoyun, Ma Shilong, Li Zhaoqi and Xia Huiqin

Volume 49, issue C, 2023

The challenge of estimating the direct and indirect effects of COVID-19 interventions – Toward an integrated economic and epidemiological approach

Florian Dorn, Berit Lange, Martin Braml, David Gstrein, John L.Z. Nyirenda, Patrizio Vanella, Joachim Winter, Clemens Fuest and Gérard Krause

How sensitive is the compensating income variation to severity and adaptation?

Kristjana Baldursdottir, Tinna Laufey Asgeirsdottir and Thorhildur Olafsdottir

Influence of poverty concerns on demand for healthier processed foods: A field experiment in Mexico City

Marcos E. Dominguez-Viera, Marrit van den Berg, Michel Handgraaf and Jason Donovan

Surviving the Deluge: British servicemen in World War I

Roy E. Bailey, Timothy Hatton and Kris Inwood

Are austerity measures really distressing? Evidence from Italy

Vanessa Cirulli and Giorgia Marini

Heterogeneity in place effects on health: The case of time preferences and adolescent obesity

Ashlesha Datar, Nancy Nicosia and Anya Samek

Is inconsistent reporting of self-assessed health persistent and systematic? Evidence from the UKHLS

Apostolos Davillas, Victor Hugo de Oliveira and Andrew Jones

Air pollution and infant mortality: Evidence from China

Linfeng Wang, Tie Shi and Hanyi Chen

Intergenerational coresidence and the Covid-19 pandemic in the United States

Luca Pensieroso, Alessandro Sommacal and Gaia Spolverini

The financial situation before and after first-time psychiatric in-patient diagnosis of schizophrenia spectrum, bipolar, and major depressive disorder

Marcus Eliason

On a tendency in health economics to dwell on income inequality and underestimate social stress

Oded Stark

Differential methylation in CD44 and SEC23A is associated with time preference in older individuals

Laura J. Smyth, Sharon M. Cruise, Jianjun Tang, Ian Young, Bernadette McGuinness, Frank Kee and Amy Jayne McKnight

Stressor or succour? Examining the association between conflict, livestock assets, and farmers’ mental health in Nigeria

Olusegun Fadare, Giacomo Zanello and Chittur Srinivasan

Trusting the Health System and COVID 19 Restriction Compliance

Joan Costa-Font and Cristina Vilaplana-Prieto

Obesity inequality and well-being in Germany

Fan Meng, Peng Nie and Alfonso Sousa-Poza

The Indian Enigma revisited

Liza von Grafenstein, Stephan Klasen and John Hoddinott

Free to die: Economic freedoms and influenza mortality

Marta Marson, Matteo Migheli and Donatella Saccone

Genetic nurture in educational attainment

John Cawley, Euna Han, Jiyoon Kim and Edward Norton

How is smoking distributed in relation to socioeconomic status? Evidence from Brazil in the years 2013 and 2019

Anderson Moreira Aristides Dos Santos, Lívia Triaca and Pedro Henrique Soares Leivas

Parental nonemployment in childhood and children’s health later in life

Mario Martínez-Jiménez

The impact of informal and formal care disruption on older adults’ psychological distress during the COVID-19 pandemic in UK

Cinzia Di Novi, Gianmaria Martini and Caterina Sturaro

Height and standard of living in Puerto Rico from the Spanish enlightenment to annexation by the United States, 1770–1924

Javier Moreno- Lázaro

Volume 48, issue C, 2023

How do childhood ADHD symptoms affect labour market outcomes?

Nasir Rajah, Richard Mattock and Adam Martin

The mitigating effect of masks on the spread of Covid-19

Daniel Cooper, Vaishali Garga, Maria Luengo-Prado and Jenny Tang

Impact of Isolation measures on pregnancy outcome during the COVID-19 pandemic

Yu Tao, Yang Xiao, Fangyi Wang, Yuxiu Liang, Jin Zhang, Xiaokang Ji, Yongchao Wang and Zhiping Wang

De-normalizing smoking in urban areas: Public smoking bans and smoking prevalence

Susana Otálvaro, Juan Gallego and Paul Rodríguez-Lesmes

Urban height penalty during early industrialized periods was not observed in the 1928–1929 conscript inspection data in Iwate Prefecture

Takahiro Mitsui

Spillover effects of retirement: Does health vulnerability matter?

Dominic Byrne, Do Won Kwak, Kam Ki Tang and Myra Yazbeck

Health, income, and the preston curve: A long view

Leandro Prados de la Escosura

The impact of lockdowns during the COVID-19 pandemic on fertility intentions

Irma Mooi-Reci, Trong-Anh Trinh, Esperanza Vera-Toscano and Mark Wooden