Economics & Human Biology

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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

Volume 47, issue C, 2022

Heterogeneity in disease resistance and the impact of antibiotics in the US

Justin Cook and Jason Fletcher

Employer-sponsored health insurance and labor market outcomes for men in same-sex couples: Evidence from the advent of pre-exposure prophylaxis

Conor Lennon

Month of birth and height. A case study in rural Spain

Begoña Candela-Martínez, Salvador Ramallo-Ros, José Cañabate and José-Miguel Martínez-Carrión

Living standards in settler South Africa, 1865–1920

Johan Fourie, Kris Inwood and Martine Mariotti

Air pollution and individual productivity: Evidence from the Ironman Triathlon results

Iuliia Naidenova, Petr Parshakov and Sergei Suvorov

The COVID-19 pandemic and birth outcomes in 2020: The role of prenatal care and other channels

Ana Balsa and Patricia Triunfo

Mothers’ caregiving during COVID: The impact of marital property laws on women’s labor force status

Cynthia Bansak, Shoshana Grossbard and Ho-Po Crystal Wong

No “honeymoon phase”: whose health benefits from retirement and when

Birgit Leimer and Reyn Van Ewijk

Is paternal height related to fertility outcomes? Evidence from the Netherlands during the secular growth trend

Kristina Thompson, France Portrait and Maarten Lindeboom

Short men in poor lands: The agrarian workers from southwestern Spain in anthropometric perspective

Antonio M. Linares-Luján and Francisco M. Parejo-Moruno

What is driving the relationship between height and cognition? Evidence from the Twins Early Development Study

Vikesh Amin and Jason Fletcher

The variability and volatility of sleep: An ARCHetypal behavior

Daniel Hamermesh and Gerard Pfann

Child health inequality in Sub-Saharan Africa

David Pérez-Mesa, Gustavo Marrero and Sara Darias-Curvo

Vulnerability and COVID-19 infection rates: A changing relationship during the first year of the pandemic

Elena Barcena-Martin, Julián Molina, Ana Muñoz-Fernández and Salvador Pérez-Moreno

Born to be wild: Second-to-fourth digit length ratio and risk preferences

Brian Finley, Adriaan Kalwij and Arie Kapteyn

Unequal excess mortality during the Spanish Flu pandemic in the Netherlands

Auke Rijpma, Ingrid van Dijk, Ruben Schalk, Richard L. Zijdeman and Rick J. Mourits

Close encounters during a pandemic: Social habits and inter-generational links in the first two waves of COVID-19

Annalisa Cristini and Pedro Trivin

Does searching online for vaccination information affect vaccination coverage? Evidence from Sub-Saharan African countries

Ouattara Zieh Moussa and Kenji Takeuchi

The effect of siblings’ sex ratio on physical capital, human capital, and gendered time use among adolescents in Ethiopia

Hiwot Mesfin, Francesco Cecchi, Eleonora Nillesen and Nyasha Tirivayi

Having exams during Ramadan: The case of Indonesia

Chaikal Nuryakin, Pyan A. Muchtar, Natanael W.G. Massie and Sean Hambali

Time preference and nutrition label use: Evidence from China

Lijun Guan, Zuhui Huang and Shaosheng Jin

Sweet or not: Using information and cognitive dissonance to nudge children toward healthier food choices

Trang Nguyen, Alan de Brauw and Marrit van den Berg

Selective mortality and fertility and long run health effects of prenatal wartime exposure

Reyn Van Ewijk and Maarten Lindeboom

Maternal employment and childhood obesity in Russia

Yuliya Kazakova

The impact of educational rewards on the diagnosis of autism spectrum disorder

Matt Hampton and Scott McNamara

Bodyweight and human capital development: Assessing the impact of obesity on socioemotional skills during childhood in Chile

Mauricio Sarrias and Alejandra Blanco

Elections have (health) consequences: Depression, anxiety, and the 2020 presidential election

Sankar Mukhopadhyay

The “Quiet Revolution” and the cesarean section in the United States

Darren Grant

Convincing the “Herd” of immunity: Lessons from smallpox vaccination in 19th century Germany

Katharina Mühlhoff

Education and COVID-19 excess mortality

Piera Bello and Lorenzo Rocco

Is WIC effective in improving pregnancy-related outcomes? An empirical reassessment

Ji Yan

Are stunted child – overweight mother pairs a real defined entity or a statistical artifact?

Jonas Fooken and Linh K. Vo

Pain trends and pain growth disparities, 2009–2021

Lucía Macchia

Vaccination rates and COVID outcomes across U.S. states

Robert Barro