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Volume 42, issue C, 2021

Home alone? Effect of weather-induced behaviour on spread of SARS-CoV-2 in Germany

Slava Yakubenko

Stunting, IQ, and final school attainment in the Cebu Longitudinal Health and Nutrition Survey birth cohort

Linda S. Adair, Delia B. Carba, Nanette R. Lee and Judith B. Borja

Can electronic prescribing mandates reduce opioid-related overdoses?

Rahi Abouk and David Powell

Menopause as a regulatory device for matching the demand for children with its supply: A hypothesis

Oded Stark

Effects of passive smoking on prenatal and infant development: Lessons from the past

Carlo Ciccarelli, Gianni De Fraja and Daniela Vuri

Early adoption of non-pharmaceutical interventions and COVID-19 mortality

Catalina Amuedo-Dorantes, Cristina Borra, Noelia Rivera-Garrido and Almudena Sevilla

Political violence and child health: Results from Zimbabwe

Olga N. Shemyakina

A bitter epidemic: The impact of the 1918 influenza on sugar production in Java

Daniel Gallardo-Albarrán and Pim de Zwart

The impact of the State Innovation Models Initiative on population health

Partha Deb, Anjelica Gangaram and Hoda Nouri Khajavi

Sex ratios and mental health: Evidence from China

Kezhong Zhang, Fan He and Yuanyuan Ma

Proximity to SNAP-authorized retailers and child maltreatment reports

Lindsey Rose Bullinger, Julia M. Fleckman and Kelley Fong

Fathers matter: Intrahousehold responsibilities and children's wellbeing during the COVID-19 lockdown in Italy

Lucia Mangiavacchi, Luca Piccoli and Luca Pieroni

Do employers discriminate against obese employees? Evidence from individuals who are simultaneously self-employed and working for an employer

Sankar Mukhopadhyay

Did Covid-19 hit harder in peripheral areas? The case of Italian municipalities

Francesco Armillei, Francesco Filippucci and Thomas Fletcher

Consequences of teenage childbearing on child health

Shubhashrita Basu and Devon Gorry

Too unwell to trust? The effect of mental health on social trust in Europe

Punarjit Roychowdhury

Volume 41, issue C, 2021

Noncommunicable disease outcomes and the effects of vertical and horizontal health aid

Deliana Kostova, Rachel Nugent and Patricia Richter

Time spent exercising and obesity: An application of Lewbel’s instrumental variables method

Charles Courtemanche, Joshua Pinkston and Jay Stewart

Determinants of bicycle commuting and the effect of bicycle infrastructure investment in London: Evidence from UK census microdata

Adam Martin, Marcello Morciano and Marc Suhrcke

Disparities in COVID-19 mortality by county racial composition and the role of spring social distancing measures

Mary K. Hamman

Does increasing access-to-care delay accessing of care? Evidence from kidney transplantation

Sarah Stith and Xiaoxue Li

Does a delayed school start time cause students to exercise less? Evidence from South Korea

Hyungserk Ha, Eun Jin Jung and Kanghyock Koh

Prenatal economic shocks and birth outcomes in UK cohort data

Andrew Clark, D’Ambrosio, Conchita and Nicholas Rohde

Behavioral responses to the 2015 MERS epidemic in Korea

Hansoo Ko

Do additional SNAP benefits matter for child weight?: Evidence from the 2009 benefit increase

Katelin M. Hudak and Elizabeth F. Racine

Effect of an abrupt change in sexual and reproductive health policy on teen birth rates in Ecuador, 2008–2017

Omar Galarraga and Jeffrey E. Harris

The long-run heterogeneous effects of a cholera pandemic on stature: Evidence from industrializing Japan

Kota Ogasawara and Tatsuki Inoue

Leisure-time physical activity is associated with socio-economic status beyond income – Cross-sectional survey of the Northern Finland Birth Cohort 1966 study

Sanna Huikari, Hanna Junttila, Leena Ala-Mursula, Timo Jämsä, Raija Korpelainen, Jouko Miettunen, Rauli Svento and Marko Korhonen

Height and marital outcomes in the Netherlands, birth years 1841-1900

Kristina Thompson, Xander Koolman and France Portrait

The effect of parental smoking on children’s cognitive and non-cognitive skills

Preety Srivastava and Trong-Anh Trinh

The psychological burden of the COVID-19 pandemic severity

Kien Le and My Nguyen

New evidence on the impact of the Great Recession on health-compromising behaviours

James Hall, Ilias Goranitis, Jesse Kigozi and Alessandra Guariglia

Fee equalization and appropriate health care

Emilia Barili, Paola Bertoli and Veronica Grembi

Do low-cost economic incentives motivate healthy behavior?

Bhagyashree Katare

Population policy, family size and child malnutrition in Vietnam – Testing the trade-off between child quantity and quality from a child nutrition perspective

Qihui Chen

Death, demography and the denominator: Age-adjusted Influenza-18 mortality in Ireland

Christopher Colvin and Eoin McLaughlin

A Causal Estimate of Long-Term Health Care Spending Attributable to Body Mass Index Among Adults

Debra G. Bozzi and Lauren Nicholas

The return of sleep

Shinya Kajitani

Poverty and limited attention

Stefanie Y. Schmitt and Markus G. Schlatterer

Early warning of vulnerable counties in a pandemic using socio-economic variables

Damian J. Ruck, R. Alexander Bentley and Joshua Borycz

Postpartum medical utilization: The role of prenatal economic activity and living costs

Chung-Liang Lin

Does BMI predict the early spatial variation and intensity of Covid-19 in developing countries? Evidence from India

Nidhiya Menon

The great crime recovery: Crimes against women during, and after, the COVID-19 lockdown in Mexico

Lauren Hoehn-Velasco, Adan Silverio-Murillo and Jose Roberto Balmori de la Miyar

Social media use and emotional and behavioural outcomes in adolescence: Evidence from British longitudinal data

Paul McNamee, Silvia Mendolia and Oleg Yerokhin

The gender gap in the biological living standard in Spain. A study based on the heights of an elite migration to Mexico, 1840-1930

Carlos Santiago-Caballero

Early-life exposure to parental mental distress and adulthood depression among middle-aged and elderly Chinese

Xiaodong Zheng, Shuangyue Shangguan, Zuyi Fang and Xiangming Fang

Are the costs of employer-sponsored health insurance passed on to workers at the individual level?

Conor Lennon

Offspring migration and nutritional status of left-behind older adults in rural China

Chang Liu, Tor Eriksson and Fujin Yi

The effect of income support programs on job search, workplace mobility and COVID-19: International evidence

Abraham Abebe Asfaw

Volume 40, issue C, 2021

Perinatal health among 1 million Chinese-Americans

Douglas Almond and Yi Cheng

Physical mobility under stay-at-home orders: A comparative analysis of movement restrictions between the U.S. and Europe

Dafeng Xu

Black-white disparities during an epidemic: Life expectancy and lifespan disparity in the US, 1980–2000

José Manuel Aburto, Frederikke Frehr Kristensen and Paul Sharp

Medicaid coverage and use of nicotine replacement treatment

Lianlian Lei and Feng Liu

The impact of the Philadelphia beverage tax on employment: A synthetic control analysis

Samantha Marinello, Julien Leider, Oksana Pugach and Lisa M. Powell

Inequality in mortality in pre-industrial southern Europe during an epidemic episode: socio-economic determinants (eighteenth - nineteenth centuries Spain)

Víctor A. Luque de Haro, Joana M. Pujadas-Mora and José J. García-Gómez

Sunlight and Protection Against Influenza

David Slusky and Richard Zeckhauser

Deforestation and infant mortality: Evidence from Indonesia

Averi Chakrabarti

Childhood stunting and cognitive effects of water and sanitation in Indonesia

Lisa Cameron, Claire Chase, Sabrina Haque, George Joseph, Rebekah Pinto and Qiao Wang

Human papillomavirus vaccine and risky sexual behavior: Regression discontinuity design evidence from Brazil

Gustavo Saraiva Frio and Marco Tulio Aniceto França

The effect of lockdowns and infection rates on supermarket sales

Judit Vall Castello and Guillem Lopez Casasnovas

Regional differences in diabetes across Europe – regression and causal forest analyses

Péter Elek and Anikó Bíró

The effect of retirement on health biomarkers

Devon Gorry and Sita Slavov

Modelling children's anthropometric status using Bayesian distributional regression merging socio-economic and remote sensed data from South Asia and sub-Saharan Africa

Johannes Seiler, Kenneth Harttgen, Thomas Kneib and Stefan Lang

Family ties and child obesity in Italy

Federico Crudu, Laura Neri and Silvia Tiezzi

Prenatal exposure to the German food crisis 1944–1948 and health after 65 years

Hendrik Jürges and Thomas Kopetsch

Insights on the implications of COVID-19 mitigation measures for mental health

Bita Fayaz Farkhad and Dolores Albarracín