Economics & Human Biology

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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

Volume 45, issue C, 2022

Can nudging overcome procrastinating on preventive health investments?

Willa Friedman and Nicholas Wilson

The relationship between early-life conditions in the home country and adult outcomes among child immigrants in the United States

Deniz Gevrek, Cahit Guven and Z. Eylem Gevrek

The local and global mental health effects of the Covid-19 pandemic

Alpaslan Akay

Effects of welfare reform on household food insecurity across generations

Hope Corman, Dhaval M. Dave, Ofira Schwartz-Soicher and Nancy E. Reichman

Population homeostasis in sub-Saharan Africa

David de la Croix and Paula Gobbi

Depression and labor supply: Evidence from the Netherlands

Charlotte Ringdal and Frank Rootjes

School starting age and nutritional outcomes: Evidence from Brazil

Pierre Levasseur

Gender inequality in nutrition intake: Evidence from a large assistance program

Qing Wang and Shiying Zhang

Intergenerational health effects of Medicaid

Hamid Noghanibehambari

Prenatal climate shocks and adult height in developing countries. Evidence from Japan (1872–1917)

Jean-Pascal Bassino, Thomas Lagoarde-Segot and Ulrich Woitek

Lockdown strictness and mental health effects among older populations in Europe

Ariadna García-Prado, Paula González and Yolanda F. Rebollo-Sanz

Does democracy make taller men? Cross-country European evidence

Alberto Batinti and Joan Costa-Font

The reliability of adult self-reported height: The role of interviewers

Lukas Olbrich, Yuliya Kosyakova and Joseph W. Sakshaug

Volume 44, issue C, 2022

Intergenerational transmission of dietary habits among Italian children and adolescents

Francesca Tosi and Rosella Rettaroli

The impact of civil conflict on child health: Evidence from Colombia

Noémi Kreif, Andrew Mirelman, Marc Suhrcke, Giancarlo Buitrago and Rodrigo Moreno-Serra

Stunting, double orphanhood and unequal access to public services in democratic South Africa

Grace Bridgman and Dieter von Fintel

Impact of changes in relationship status on smoking behavior and body weight

Marc-André Hillebrandt

The Asian Games, air pollution and birth outcomes in South China: An instrumental variable approach

Xiaoying Liu, Huazhang Miao, Jere Behrman, Emily Hannum, Zhijiang Liang and Qingguo Zhao

The impacts of the Free Semester program on students’ exam nervousness

Yoosik Shin

The long-run effects of adolescent athletic participation on women’s health

Kevin Callison and Aaron Lowen

Mendelian randomization analysis of the causal impact of body mass index and waist-hip ratio on rates of hospital admission

Audinga-Dea Hazewinkel, Rebecca C. Richmond, Kaitlin H. Wade and Padraig Dixon

The origins of cognitive skills and non-cognitive skills: The long-term effect of in-utero rainfall shocks in India

Grace Chang, Marta Favara and Rafael Novella

International travel in times of the COVID-19 pandemic: The case of German school breaks

Andreas Backhaus

Effectiveness of social distancing interventions in containing COVID-19 incidence: International evidence using Kalman filter

Navendu Prakash, Bhavya Srivastava, Shveta Singh, Seema Sharma and Sonali Jain

Wrong place, wrong time: The long-run effects of in-utero exposure to malaria on educational attainment

Henrique Veras

Rank comparisons amongst teenagers and suicidal ideation

Yarine Fawaz and Junhee Lee

Desert locust swarms and child health

Kien Le and My Nguyen

Productivity, obesity, and human capital: Panel data evidence

Ummad Mazhar and Fahd Rehman

The long shadow of the Kargil War: The effect of early-life stress on education

Tushar Bharati

Effects of parental public health insurance eligibility on parent and child health outcomes

Maithreyi Gopalan, Caitlin McPherran Lombardi and Lindsey Rose Bullinger

Early childhood stunting and later life outcomes: A longitudinal analysis

Ashwini Deshpande and Rajesh Ramachandran

The impact of a malaria elimination initiative on school outcomes: Evidence from Southern Mozambique

Laia Cirera, Judit Vall Castello, Joe Brew, Francisco Saúte and Elisa Sicuri