Economics & Human Biology

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Volume 37, issue C, 2020

The effect of the economic collapse in Iceland on the probability of cardiovascular events

Kristín Helga Birgisdóttir, Arna Hauksdóttir, Christopher Ruhm, Unnur Anna Valdimarsdóttir and Tinna Laufey Ásgeirsdóttir

The effects of weather shocks on early childhood development: Evidence from 25 years of tropical storms in Jamaica

Diether Beuermann and Camilo J. Pecha

Valuing pain using the subjective well-being method

Thorhildur Ólafsdóttir, Tinna Laufey Ásgeirsdóttir and Edward Norton

Nutritional and socio-economic predictors of adult height in 152 world populations

P. Grasgruber and E. Hrazdíra

Birth weight, neonatal care, and infant mortality: Evidence from macrosomic babies

Ylenia Brilli and Brandon Restrepo

Obesity and hiring discrimination

Raymundo Campos-Vazquez and Eva Gonzalez

Height shrinkage, health and mortality among older adults: Evidence from Indonesia

Urvashi Jain and Mingming Ma

Drudgery reduction, physical activity and energy requirements in rural livelihoods

Chittur Srinivasan, Giacomo Zanello, Paul Nkegbe, Radhika Cherukuri, Fiorella Picchioni, Nithya Gowdru and Patrick Webb

The effect of implicit and explicit taxes on the purchasing of ‘high-in-calorie’ products: A randomized controlled trial

Brett Doble, Felicia Ang Jia Ler and Eric A. Finkelstein

Male fertility between biology and the socioeconomic context news from the past (Alghero, 1866–1935)

M. Breschi, A. Fornasin, G. Gonano, S. Mazzoni and M. Manfredini

The effect of type 2 diabetes diagnosis in the elderly

Alessio Gaggero

Social class-specific secular trends in height among 19-year old Polish men: 6th national surveys from 1965 till 2010

M. Lopuszanska-Dawid, H. Kołodziej, A. Lipowicz, A. Szklarska, A. Kopiczko and T. Bielicki

The impact of early-life shocks on adult welfare in Brazil: Questions of measurement and timing

Dylan Fitz and Riley League

The biological standard of living in La Paz (Bolivia), 1880s–1920s: Persistent stagnation and inequality

Boris Branisa, José Peres-Cajías and Nigel Caspa

Newborn health and the business cycle: The role of birth order

Ainoa Aparicio, Libertad Gonzalez and Judit Vall Castello

Do prices and purchases respond similarly to soft drink tax increases and cuts?

Renke Schmacker and Sinne Smed

Opioid epidemics

Holger Strulik

The impact of the Cook County, IL, Sweetened Beverage Tax on beverage prices

Lisa M. Powell, Julien Leider and Pierre Thomas Léger

Are only children in China more likely to be obese/overweight than their counterparts with siblings?

Xu Tian and Stephan von Cramon-Taubadel

The macroeconomic impacts of diet-related fiscal policy for NCD prevention: A systematic review

Sarah Mounsey, Lennert Veerman, Stephen Jan and Anne Marie Thow

Catch-up growth in height and cognitive function: Why definitions matter

Daniela Casale, Chris Desmond and Linda M. Richter

Can the updated nutrition facts label decrease sugar-sweetened beverage consumption?

Zachary Neuhofer, Brandon McFadden, Alicia Rihn, Xuan Wei, Hayk Khachatryan and Lisa House

The effect of local unemployment on health: A longitudinal study of Irish mothers 2001-2011

Jonathan Briody, Orla Doyle and Cecily Kelleher

Do childhood infections affect labour market outcomes in adulthood and, if so, how?

Jutta Viinikainen, Alex Bryson, Petri Böckerman, Marko Elovainio, Nina Hutri-Kähönen, Markus Juonala, Terho Lehtimäki, Katja Pahkala, Suvi Rovio, Laura Pulkki-Råback, Olli Raitakari and Jaakko Pehkonen

The value of early physical maturity to young adult labor market outcomes

Chanita Holmes, Marlon R. Tracey and Ariel Belasen

Younger, dissatisfied, and unhealthy – Relative age in adolescence

Luca Fumarco, Stijn Baert and Francesco Sarracino

Oakland’s sugar-sweetened beverage tax: Impacts on prices, purchases and consumption by adults and children

John Cawley, David Frisvold, Anna Hill and David Jones

Chronic kidney disease and household behaviors in Sri Lanka: Historical choices of drinking water and agrochemical use

Soumya Balasubramanya, David Stifel, Theodore Horbulyk and Kashi Kafle

The impact of UK soft drinks industry levy on manufacturers’ domestic turnover

Cherry Law, Laura Cornelsen, Jean Adams, David Pell, Harry Rutter, Martin White and Richard Smith

The impact of Seattle’s Sweetened Beverage Tax on beverage prices and volume sold

Lisa M. Powell and Julien Leider

Volume 36, issue C, 2020

Experimental evidence on post-program effects and spillovers from an agriculture-nutrition program

Andrew Dillon, Lilia Bliznashka and Deanna Olney

Biomarkers as precursors of disability

Apostolos Davillas and Stephen Pudney

Season of birth, health and aging

Ana Lucia Abeliansky and Holger Strulik

Does lower fertility empower women? Evidence from rural Bangladesh

Ummul Ruthbah

The effect of labor market shocks on health: The case of the Russian transition

Olga Lazareva

Long run educational and spillover effects of unconditional cash transfers: Evidence from South Africa

Cyprian Mcwayizeni Mostert and Judit Vall Castello

Acute health shocks and labour market outcomes: Evidence from the post crash era

Andrew Jones, Nigel Rice and Francesca Zantomio

The effect of birth weight on behavioral problems in early adolescence: New evidence from monozygotic twins

Stine Møllegaard

Do Cesarean Delivery rates rise when the economy declines? A test of the economic stress hypothesis

Laura Viluma

New anthropometric evidence on living standards in nineteenth-century Chile

Manuel Llorca-Jaña, Damian Clarke, Juan Navarrete-Montalvo, Roberto Araya-Valenzuela and Martina Allende

Impact of SSB taxes on sales

Judit Vall Castello and Guillem Lopez Casasnovas

Growing in the womb: The effect of seismic activity on fetal growth

Rocío Álvarez-Aranda, Serafima Chirkova and José Romero Ciavatto

The relationship between height and leadership: Evidence from across Europe

Felix Bittmann

Differences in Cesarean section rates by fetal sex among Chinese women in the United States: Does Chinese culture play a role?

Menghan Shen and Linyan Li

Chain effects of clean water: The Mills–Reincke phenomenon in early 20th-century Japan

Tatsuki Inoue and Kota Ogasawara

What determines perceived income justice? Evidence from the German TwinLife study

Michael Neugart and Selen Yildirim

Harsh parenting during early childhood and child development

Matias Berthelon, Dante Contreras, Diana Kruger and María Isidora Palma

U.S. obesity as delayed effect of excess sugar

R. Alexander Bentley, Damian J. Ruck and Hillary N. Fouts

Volume 35, issue C, 2019

Long commutes to work during pregnancy and infant health at birth pp. 1-17

Yang Wang and Muzhe Yang

Twins are more different than commonly believed, but made less different by compensating behaviors pp. 18-31

Jin-Young Choi and Myoung-jae Lee

The long-term economic effects of polio: Evidence from the introduction of the polio vaccine to Sweden in 1957 pp. 32-41

Luis Serratos-Sotelo, Tommy Bengtsson and Anton Nilsson

What explains cross-city variation in mortality during the 1918 influenza pandemic? Evidence from 438 U.S. cities pp. 42-50

Karen Clay, Joshua Lewis and Edson Severnini

Graduated driver licensing and teen fertility pp. 51-62

Monica Deza

The fertility-inhibiting effect of mosquitoes: Socio-economic differences in response to the Zika crisis in Colombia pp. 63-72

Luis Gamboa and Paul Rodriguez Lesmes

Linking risk attitudes, time preferences, and body mass index in Catalonia pp. 73-81

Wisdom Dogbe and José M. Gil

How does alcohol access affect transitional adults’ healthy dietary behaviors? pp. 82-95

Hieu Nguyen

The reciprocal relationship between depressive symptoms and employment status pp. 96-106

Melisa Bubonya, Deborah Cobb-Clark and David Ribar

Can positive income anticipations reverse the mental health impacts of negative income anxieties? pp. 107-122

Barry Watson and Lars Osberg

Valuing health damages due to groundwater arsenic contamination in Bihar, India pp. 123-132

Barun Thakur and Vijaya Gupta

Does point-of-sale nutrition information improve the nutritional quality of food choices? pp. 133-143

Grace Melo, Chen Zhen and Gregory Colson

Ex-ante Inequality of Opportunity in Child Malnutrition: New Evidence from Ten Developing Countries in Asia pp. 144-161

Toshiaki Aizawa

Studying the impact of the Eurozone’s Great Recession on health: Methodological choices and challenges pp. 162-184

Kristina Thompson, Johan van Ophem and Annemarie Wagemakers

Living standards and inequality in the industrial revolution: Evidence from the height of University of Edinburgh students in the 1830s pp. 185-192

Matthias Blum and Eoin McLaughlin

Health and transitions into nonemployment and early retirement among older workers in Canada pp. 193-206

Wen-Hao Chen

On the measurement of health and its effect on the measurement of health inequality pp. 207-221

Erik Nesson and Joshua Robinson