Economics & Human Biology

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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

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