Economics & Human Biology

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Volume 39, issue C, 2020

Maternal education and infant health gradient: New answers to old questions

Vinish Shrestha

Price impact of taxes on sugary drinks in Brazil

Paula Pereda and Carolina Policarpo Garcia

Political violence, adverse shocks and child malnutrition: Empirical evidence from Andhra Pradesh, India

Jean-Pierre Tranchant, Patricia Justino and Cathérine Müller

The effect of working hours on health

Inés Berniell and Jan Bietenbeck

Tobacco taxes and illicit cigarette trade in Colombia

Juan Gallego, Blanca Llorente, Norman Maldonado, Susana Otálvaro-Ramírez and Paul Rodríguez-Lesmes

Is owning your home good for your health? Evidence from exogenous variations in subsidies in England

Luke A. Munford, Eleonora Fichera and Matt Sutton

When children have children: The effects of child marriages and teenage pregnancies on early childhood mortality in Bangladesh

Sofia Trommlerová

Blessed are the first: The long-term effect of birth order on trust

Pierluigi Conzo and Roberto Zotti

Socioeconomic inequalities in obesity in Brazil

Lívia Triaca, Anderson Moreira Aristides dos Santos and Cesar Augusto Oviedo Tejada

Is the intergenerational transmission of overweight ‘gender assortative’?

Joan Costa-Font and Mireia Jofre-Bonet

Impact of a sweetened beverage tax on beverage prices in Seattle, WA

Jessica C. Jones-Smith, Lina Pinero Walkinshaw, Vanessa M. Oddo, Melissa Knox, Marian L. Neuhouser, Philip M. Hurvitz, Brian E. Saelens and Nadine Chan

The New school food standards and nutrition of school children: Direct and Indirect Effect Analysis

Pourya Valizadeh and Shu Wen Ng

Impacts of boarding on primary school students’ mental health outcomes – Instrumental-Variable evidence from rural northwestern China

Qihui Chen, Yu Chen and Qiran Zhao

Armed conflict and birth weight

Kien Le and My Nguyen

Recreational marijuana laws and junk food consumption

Michele Baggio and Alberto Chong

Going beyond the mean in examining relationships of adolescent non-cognitive skills with health-related quality of life and biomarkers in later-life

Rose Atkins, Alex James Turner, Tarani Chandola and Matt Sutton

Publicly provided healthcare and migration

Clotilde Mahé

Diabetes, employment and behavioural risk factors in China: Marginal structural models versus fixed effects models

Till Seuring, Pieter Serneels, Marc Suhrcke and Max Bachmann

Refugee camps – A lasting legacy? Evidence on long-term health impact

Olive Nsababera

Gender-role ideology and height preference in mate selection

Hung-Lin Tao

Can shorter mothers have taller children? Nutritional mobility, health equity and the intergenerational transmission of relative height

Amelia B. Finaret and William Masters

Biomarkers, disability and health care demand

Apostolos Davillas and Stephen Pudney

The Influence of Household Refrigerator Ownership on Diets in Vietnam

Brent R. Heard, Huong Trinh Thi, Dharani Dhar Burra, Martin C. Heller, Shelie A. Miller, Thanh Thi Duong, Michel Simioni and Andrew D. Jones

The value of COVID-19 tests in Latin America

Jennifer M. Trudeau, Jessica Alicea-Planas and William F. Vásquez

The effect of bereavement on cognitive functioning among elderly people: Evidence from Australia

Kadir Atalay and Anita Staneva

A dynamic microeconomic analysis of the impact of physical activity on cognition among older people

Sabrina Lenzen, Brenda Gannon and Christiern Rose

Intergenerational residence patterns and Covid-19 fatalities in the EU and the US*

Ainoa Aparicio and Shoshana Grossbard

Volume 38, issue C, 2020

Distributional Effects of Recent Health Insurance Expansions on Weight-Related Outcomes

Melissa McInerney and Mark K. Meiselbach

Rainfall and child weight in Uganda

George Omiat and Gerald Shively

Parenthood and smoking

Katja Görlitz and Marcus Tamm

Obesity and bankruptcy: Evidence from US counties

Masanori Kuroki

Effects of a measles outbreak on vaccination uptake

Thomas Schober

An analysis of the stock market reaction to the announcements of the UK Soft Drinks Industry Levy

Cherry Law, Laura Cornelsen, Jean Adams, Tarra Penney, Harry Rutter, Martin White and Richard Smith

Who drinks soda pop? Economic status and adult consumption of sugar-sweetened beverages

Jay Zagorsky and Patricia K. Smith

Evaluating Saudi Arabia’s 50% carbonated drink excise tax: Changes in prices and volume sales

Reem Alsukait, Parke Wilde, Sara N. Bleich, Gitanjali Singh and Sara C. Folta

How children's education affects caregiving: Evidence from parent’s last years of life

Nan Jiang and Neeraj Kaushal

The health and financial impacts of a sugary drink tax across different income groups in Canada

Kai-Erh Kao, Amanda C. Jones, Arto Ohinmaa and Mike Paulden

Is the public sweet on sugary beverages? Social desirability bias and sweetened beverage taxes

Melissa Knox, Vanessa M. Oddo, Lina Pinero Walkinshaw and Jessica Jones-Smith

Economic development in Puerto Rico after US annexation: Anthropometric evidence

Brian Marein

The effect of retirement on biomedical and behavioral risk factors for cardiovascular and metabolic disease

Sara Pedron, Werner Maier, Annette Peters, Birgit Linkohr, Christine Meisinger, Wolfgang Rathmann, Peter Eibich and Lars Schwettmann

The effect of tobacco policies on youth physical activity

Rebecca Sen Choudhury and Karen Smith Conway

The impact of BMI on mental health: Further evidence from genetic markers

Vikesh Amin, Carlos A. Flores and Alfonso Flores-Lagunes

Height, marriage, and partner characteristics for women in low- and middle-income countries

Jason E. Murasko

Filling the weight gap: Estimating body weight and BMI using height, chest and upper arm circumference of Swiss conscripts in the first half of the 20th century

Fabienne P Trüb, Jonathan CK Wells, Frank J Rühli, Kaspar Staub and Joël Floris

Beauty perks: Physical appearance, earnings, and fringe benefits

Maryam Dilmaghani

BMI mobility and obesity transitions among children in Ireland

David Madden

Regional inequalities in adiposity in England: distributional analysis of the contribution of individual-level characteristics and the small area obesogenic environment

Apostolos Davillas and Andrew Jones

Sweet are the fruit of adversity? The impact of fathers’ death on child non-cognitive outcomes in Ethiopia

Rozana Himaz

Parents labor supply and childhood obesity: Evidence from Scotland

Stefani Milovanska-Farrington

The interaction between personality and health policy: Empirical evidence from the UK smoking bans

Cecily Josten and Grace Lordan