Economics & Human Biology

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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

Volume 46, issue C, 2022

Exploring the hidden impact of the Covid-19 pandemic: The role of urbanization

Kerim Arin, Juan A. Lacomba, Francisco Lagos, Ana Moro-Egido and Marcel Thum

The relationship between abortion rates and economic fluctuations

Fidel Gonzalez and Troy Quast

Assessing the impact of fostering on children’s outcomes in Niger

Eliane El Badaoui and Lucia Mangiavacchi

Farm fatalities in Northern Ireland agriculture: What fifty years of data tell us

Simone Angioloni and Claire Jack

In and out of unemployment—Labour market transitions and the role of testosterone

Peter Eibich, Ricky Kanabar, Alexander Plum and Julian Schmied

The effect of pharmaceutical innovation on longevity: Evidence from the U.S. and 26 high-income countries

Frank Lichtenberg

Does better education mitigate risky health behavior? A mendelian randomization study

Jutta Viinikainen, Alex Bryson, Petri Böckerman, Jaana T. Kari, Terho Lehtimäki, Olli Raitakari, Jorma Viikari and Jaakko Pehkonen

The demand for a COVID-19 vaccine

Sizhong Sun

Decomposing consumer and producer effects on sugar from beverage purchases after a sugar-based tax on beverages in South Africa

Maxime Bercholz, Shu Wen Ng, Nicholas Stacey and Elizabeth C. Swart

Digital transformation: The role of computer use in employee health

Katharina Dengler, Karolin Hiesinger and Anita Tisch

Estimating consumer preferences for different beverages using the BLP approach

Catherine Haeck, Nicholas Lawson and Krystel Poirier

Did the Finnish depression of the early 1990s have a silver lining? The effect of unemployment on long-term physical activity

Henri Salokangas, Petri Böckerman, Sanna Huikari, Marko Korhonen, Raija Korpelainen and Rauli Svento

Mass gathering events and the spread of infectious diseases: Evidence from the early growth phase of COVID-19

Rafael González-Val and Miriam Marcén

Taking the pulse of nations: A biometric measure of well-being

David Blanchflower and Alex Bryson

The effect of combat exposure on sexually transmitted diseases

Adam Ackerman

The Brazilian Family Health Strategy and adult health: Evidence from individual and local data for metropolitan areas

Natalia N. Ferreira-Batista, Fernando Antonio Postali, Maria Dolores Diaz, Adriano Dutra Teixeira and Rodrigo Moreno-Serra

People versus machines: The impact of being in an automatable job on Australian worker’s mental health and life satisfaction

Grace Lordan and Eliza-Jane Stringer

Attractiveness and preferences for redistribution

Andrea Fazio

Conflicts and son preference: Micro-level evidence from 58 countries

Srinivas Goli, Astghik Mavisakalyan, Anu Rammohan and Loan Vu

The association between fast-food consumption and job-related factors among Russian adults

Liudmila Zasimova

A copula-based approach for creating an index of micronutrient intakes at household level in Pakistan

Muhammad Amjad, Muhammad Akbar and Hamd Ullah

Social jobs and the returns to drinking

Scott J. Adams, John Heywood, Darin F. Ullman and Shrathinth Venkatesh

Household expenditure in the wake of terrorism: Evidence from high frequency in-home-scanner data

Daniel Mirza, Elena Stancanelli and Thierry Verdier

The impact of daylight on suicide rates

Kjersti Helene Hernæs and Katrine Damgaard Skyrud

Visiting parents in times of COVID-19: The impact of parent-adult child contacts on the psychological health of the elderly

Agar Brugiavini, Cinzia Di Novi and Cristina Elisa Orso

Childhood obesity, is fast food exposure a factor?

Peter J. Dolton and Wiktoria Tafesse

Estimating the causal effect of liability to disease on healthcare costs using Mendelian Randomization

Padraig Dixon, Sean Harrison, William Hollingworth, Neil M. Davies and George Davey Smith