Economics & Human Biology

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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

Volume 43, issue C, 2021

Disease and fertility: Evidence from the 1918–19 influenza pandemic in Sweden

Nina Boberg-Fazlic, Maryna Ivets, Martin Karlsson and Therese Nilsson

The association between male height and lifespan in rural Spain, birth cohorts 1835-1939

Francisco Marco-Gracia and Javier Puche

The business cycle, health behavior, and chronic disease: A study over Three decades

Jeeten Krishna Giri and Talitha Kumaresan

Inequality, low-intensity immigration and human capital formation in the regions of Chile, 1820-1939

Joerg Baten and Manuel Llorca-Jaña

Effects of large gatherings on the COVID-19 epidemic: Evidence from professional and college sports

Patrick R. Carlin, Paul Minard, Daniel H. Simon and Coady Wing

The rise in extreme mental distress among LGBT people during Trump’s rise and presidency

Masanori Kuroki

Do socioeconomic health gradients persist over time and beyond income? A distributional analysis using UK biomarker data

Kompal Sinha, Apostolos Davillas, Andrew Jones and Anurag Sharma

Competitiveness, gender and handedness

Thomas Buser, Alexander Cappelen, Uri Gneezy, Moshe Hoffman and Bertil Tungodden

Long-term effects of job loss on male health: BMI and health behaviors

Olena Nizalova and Edward Norton

The impact of past pandemics on economic and gender inequalities

Michał Brzeziński

Transitioning to an obese India: Demographic and structural determinants of the rapid rise in overweight incidence

Anaka Aiyar, Sunaina Dhingra and Prabhu Pingali

Unemployment and sleep: evidence from the United States and Europe

David Blanchflower and Alex Bryson

Treatment design, health outcomes, and demographic categories in the literature on minimum wages and health

J. Paul Leigh

Persistent Pandemics

Peter Lin and Christopher Meissner

Smoking cessation and weight gain: Evidence from China

Kevin Callison, Cuiping Schiman and Jeffrey Schiman

The effect of height on earnings: Is stature just a proxy for cognitive and non-cognitive skills?

Laurent Bossavie, Harold Alderman, John Giles and Cem Mete

Maternal stress during pregnancy and early childhood development

Matias Berthelon, Diana Kruger and Rafael Sanchez

Obesity and food away from home: What drives the socioeconomic gradient in excess body weight?

Christoph Strupat, Gabriela Farfán, Laura Moritz, Mario Negre and Renos Vakis

The impact of widowhood on wellbeing, health, and care use: A longitudinal analysis across Europe

L.M. Peña-Longobardo, B. Rodríguez-Sánchez and Juan Oliva

As if it weren’t hard enough already: Breaking down hiring discrimination following burnout

Philippe Sterkens, Stijn Baert, Claudia Rooman and Eva Derous

COVID-19 crisis management in Luxembourg: Insights from an epidemionomic approach

Michał Burzyński, Joël Machado, Atte Aalto, Michel Beine, Jorge Goncalves, Tom Haas, Françoise Kemp, Stefano Magni, Laurent Mombaerts, Pierre Picard, Daniele Proverbio, Alexander Skupin and Frédéric Docquier

Facing an unfortunate trade-off: policy responses, lessons and spill-overs during the COVID-19 pandemic

Catalin Dragomirescu-Gaina

Active leisure, passive leisure and health

Soumyadip Roy and Peter Orazem

Early marriage and maternal health care utilisation: Evidence from sub-Saharan Africa

Chuhui Li, Wenli Cheng and Hui Shi

Spousal bereavement and the cognitive health of older adults in the US: New insights on channels, single items, and subjective evidence

Yuejun Zhao, Brett Inder and Jun Sung Kim

Shelter-in-place orders, loneliness, and collaborative behavior

J. Jobu Babin, Marine Foray and Andrew Hussey

The importance of workplace accommodation for cancer survivors – The role of flexible work schedules and psychological help in returning to work

Anna Kollerup, Jacob Ladenburg, Eskil Heinesen and Christophe Kolodziejczyk

Inequality of opportunity in infant mortality in South Asia: A decomposition analysis of survival data

Toshiaki Aizawa

The effects of in-utero exposure to influenza on mental health and mortality risk throughout the life-course

Alex J. Turner, Eleonora Fichera and Matt Sutton

Transgenerational health effects of in utero exposure to economic hardship: Evidence from preindustrial Southern Norway

Emre Sari, Mikko Moilanen and Hilde Leikny Sommerseth

Does retirement affect secondary preventive care use? Evidence from breast cancer screening

Peter Eibich and Léontine Goldzahl

La Dolce Vita in times of harshness: Prevalence of health-related behaviors during the great recession in Italy

Elena Castellari, Giulia Tiboldo, Daniele Moro and Francesco Bimbo

When in America, do as the Americans? The evolution of health behaviors and outcomes across immigrant cohorts

Paolo Barbieri and Hieu M. Nguyen

What doesn’t kill her, will make her depressed

Yanan Li and Naveen Sunder

Infant feeding and post-weaning health: Evidence from turn-of-the-century London

Vellore Arthi and Eric Schneider

Aging out of the federal dependent coverage mandate and purchases of prescription drugs with high rates of misuse

Michael DiNardi

The impact of menstruation hygiene management on work absenteeism of women in Burkina Faso

Astrid Krenz and Holger Strulik

Parental economic insecurity and child health

Nancy Kong, Shelley Phipps and Barry Watson

Drinking during downturn: New evidence from the housing market fluctuations in the United States during the Great Recession

Prabal K. De and Raul Segura-Escano

Gender heterogeneity in self-reported hypertension

Eric Bonsang, Eve Caroli and Clémentine Garrouste

Is handedness exogenously determined? Counterevidence from South Korea

Seungyeon Cho

The socioeconomic gradient in child health and noncognitive skills: Evidence from the Czech Republic

Liyousew Borga, Daniel Münich and Lubomir Kukla