Economics & Human Biology

2003 - 2025

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Volume 51, issue C, 2023

Stunting and wasting in a growing economy: biological living standards in Portugal during the twentieth century

Alexandra Cermeño, Nuno Palma and Renato Pistola

Soda expansion in the tropics: The effect on obesity rates among women without piped water at home

Patricia I. Ritter

The effects of taxation on the individual consumption of sugar-sweetened beverages

Céline Bonnet and Vincent Réquillart

The association of asthma and air pollution: Evidence from India

Damini Singh, Indrani Gupta and Arjun Roy

Direct and crowding-out effects of a Hepatitis B vaccination campaign

Clémentine Garrouste, Arthur Juet and Anne-Laure Samson

The impact of overweight and obesity on unemployment duration among young American workers

Jeremy Groves and Virginia Wilcox

The sorting effect in healthcare access: Those left behind

Carine Milcent

Spatiotemporal variations in mean height of 17-year-old students born in 1957–2002 across 47 Japanese prefectures: Evidence from School Health Surveys

Nayu Ikeda and Nobuo Nishi

General and COVID19-specific emotional stress: Religious practice as a potential coping strategy

Maite Blázquez Cuesta and Rocío Sánchez-Mangas

Leave for where? The impact of air quality on migration: Evidence at the city-pair level in China

Mingyue Wang and Tianshi Sun

Seasonal patterns in newborns’ health: Quantifying the roles of climate, communicable disease, economic and social factors

Mary-Alice Doyle

Health insurance, labor market shocks, and mental health during the first year of the COVID-19 crisis

Sanders Korenman and Rosemary T. Hyson

Gender differences in the effect of teleworking on job loss during the COVID-19 pandemic in Spain

Maite Blázquez Cuesta, Ainhoa Herrarte Sánchez and Ana Moro-Egido

The intergenerational legacy of the 1959–1961 Great Chinese Famine on children’s cognitive development

Chih Ming Tan, Zhibo Tan and Xiaobo Zhang

Causal effect of obesity on the probability of employment in women in Turkey

Didem Pekkurnaz

Mental health effects of social distancing in Switzerland

Marc Anderes and Stefan Pichler

Height and political activism in rural Aragón (Spain) during the 20th century. A new perspective using individual-level data

Francisco Marco-Gracia and Margarita López-Antón

Trade liberalization and nutrition transition: Evidence from China

Xu Tian and Faqin Lin

Valuing mortality attributable to present and future temperature extremes in Argentina

Christian García-Witulski, Mariano Rabassa, Mariana Conte Grand and Julie Rozenberg

Too stressed to sleep? Downsizing, job insecurity and sleep behavior

Cornelia Chadi

Mental health effects of COVID-19 lockdowns: A Twitter-based analysis

Sara Colella, Frédéric Dufourt, Vincent Hildebrand and Rémi Vivès

Paid family leave and parental investments in infant health: Evidence from California

Jessica Pac, Ann Bartel, Christopher Ruhm and Jane Waldfogel

Immigration policy shocks and infant health

Laxman Timilsina

Air quality and employee performance in teams: Evidence from the NFL

Brad Humphreys and Jane E. Ruseski

Exposure to wildfires and health outcomes of vulnerable people: Evidence from US data

Jiyuan Zheng

The effect of hurricanes on mental health over the long term

Yasin Civelek

State dependence in immunization and the role of discouragement

Kabir Dasgupta, Gail Pacheco and Alexander Plum

Casino-based cash transfers and fertility among the Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians in North Carolina: A time-series analysis

Parvati Singh, Alison Gemmill and Tim-Allen Bruckner

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