Economics & Human Biology

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Volume 30, issue C, 2018

Why are women slimmer than men in developed countries? pp. 1-13

Shiko Maruyama and Sayaka Nakamura

Zika virus incidence, preventive and reproductive behaviors: Correlates from new survey data pp. 14-23

Climent Quintana-Domeque, José Raimundo Carvalho and Victor Hugo de Oliveira

Sexual identity, same-same relationships, and health dynamics: New evidence from Australia pp. 24-36

Joseph J. Sabia, Mark Wooden and Thanh Tam Nguyen

Smoking ban and health at birth: Evidence from Hungary pp. 37-47

Tamás Hajdu and Gábor Hajdu

“Do I look fat?” Self-perceived body weight and labor market outcomes pp. 48-58

Patricia K. Smith and Jay Zagorsky

The effects of in utero exposure to the 1918 influenza pandemic on family formation pp. 59-68

Jason Fletcher

The effect of prenatal exposure to Ramadan on children’s height pp. 69-83

Seyed M. Karimi and Anirban Basu

There is no such thing as a (gluten-)free lunch: Higher food prices and the cost for coeliac consumers pp. 84-91

Sara Capacci, Anna Caterina Leucci and Mario Mazzocchi

The effect of unemployment insurance on alcohol use and abuse following job loss pp. 92-103

Robert Lantis and Brittany Teahan

The effects of school desegregation on infant health pp. 104-118

Menghan Shen

Altruism in preventive health behavior: At-scale evidence from the HIV/AIDS pandemic pp. 119-129

Nicholas Wilson

Parental human capital and child health at birth in India pp. 130-149

Md Nazmul Ahsan and Riddhi Maharaj

Household dairy production and child growth: Evidence from Bangladesh pp. 150-161

Samira Choudhury and Derek Headey

Economic downturns and infant health pp. 162-171

Rob Alessie, Viola Angelini, Jochen Mierau and Laura Viluma

The 2D:4D ratio does not always correlate with economic behavior: A field experiment with African-Americans pp. 172-181

Natalia Candelo Londono and Catherine Eckel

Volume 29, issue C, 2018

Decision-making, financial risk aversion, and behavioral biases: The role of testosterone and stress pp. 1-16

John R. Nofsinger, Fernando M. Patterson and Corey Shank

Health and health inequality during the great recession: Evidence from the PSID pp. 17-30

Huixia Wang, Chenggang Wang and Timothy Halliday

Smoking and early retirement due to chronic disability pp. 31-41

Tommy Bengtsson and Anton Nilsson

Family size effects on childhood obesity: Evidence on the quantity-quality trade-off using the NLSY pp. 42-55

Kabir Dasgupta and Keisha T. Solomon

Childhood obesity in China: Does grandparents’ coresidence matter? pp. 56-63

Qinying He, Xun Li and Rui Wang

Sex selection and health at birth among Indian immigrants pp. 64-75

Libertad Gonzalez

Ladies first: Female and male adult height in Switzerland, 1770–1930 pp. 76-87

Nikola Koepke, Joël Floris, Christian Pfister, Frank J. Rühli and Kaspar Staub

The educational impact of shocks in utero: Evidence from Rwanda pp. 88-101

Tom Bundervoet and Sonja Fransen

Hybrid marriages and phenotypic heterosis in offspring: Evidence from China pp. 102-114

Chen Zhu, Xiaohui Zhang, Qiran Zhao and Qihui Chen

Employment and weight status: The extreme case of body concern in South Korea pp. 115-121

Seung-Yong Han, Alexandra A. Brewis and Cindi SturtzSreetharan

Craniofacial asymmetry as a marker of socioeconomic status among undocumented Mexican immigrants in the United States pp. 122-127

Katherine E. Weisensee and M. Katherine Spradley

Can we increase organ donation by reducing the disincentives? An experimental analysis pp. 128-137

Zackary Hawley, Danyang Li, Kurt Schnier and Nicole Turgeon

Smoking and local unemployment: Evidence from Germany pp. 138-147

Micha Kaiser, Mirjam Reutter, Alfonso Sousa-Poza and Kristina Strohmaier

Persisting patterns of human height? Regional differences in living standards in the Early Middle Ages pp. 148-167

Nicholas Meinzer

Height in eighteenth-century Chilean men: Evidence from military records, 1730–1800s pp. 168-178

Manuel Llorca-Jaña, Juan Navarrete-Montalvo, Federico Droller and Roberto Araya-Valenzuela

Inequality in old age cognition across the world pp. 179-188

Javier Olivera, Francesco Andreoli, Anja K. Leist and Louis Chauvel

Why do very unattractive workers earn so much? pp. 189-197

Satoshi Kanazawa, Shihao Hu and Adrien Larere

Public health and multiple-phase mortality decline: Evidence from industrializing Japan pp. 198-210

Kota Ogasawara and Yukitoshi Matsushita

Hungry children age faster pp. 211-220

Ana Lucia Abeliansky and Holger Strulik

Volume 28, issue C, 2018

The rise in obesity in Cuba from 2001 to 2010: An analysis of National Survey on Risk Factors and Chronic Diseases data pp. 1-13

Peng Nie, Alina Alfonso Leon, Maria Elena Díaz Sánchez and Alfonso Sousa-Poza

Food insecurity and child behavior problems in fragile families pp. 14-22

Christian King

Age at menarche in Polish University students born before, during and after World War II: Economic effects pp. 23-28

Grażyna Liczbińska, Zbigniew Czapla, Janusz Piontek and Robert M. Malina

Macroeconomic conditions and health: Inspecting the transmission mechanism pp. 29-37

Emilio Colombo, Valentina Rotondi and Luca Stanca

Do employers reward physical attractiveness in transition countries? pp. 38-52

Astghik Mavisakalyan

Two by two, inch by inch: Height as an indicator of environmental conditions during childhood and its influence on earnings over the life cycle among twins pp. 53-66

Elisabeth Lång and Paul Nystedt

Fertility and the health of children in Indonesia pp. 67-78

Timothy Hatton, Robert Sparrow, Daniel Suryadarma and Pierre van der Eng

Does integrating AIDS treatment with food assistance affect labor supply? Evidence from Zambia pp. 79-91

Nyasha Tirivayi and Wim Groot

The intergenerational transmission of obesity: The role of time preferences and self-control pp. 92-106

Michal Stoklosa, Kerem Shuval, Jeffrey Drope, Rusty Tchernis, Mark Pachucki, Amy Yaroch and Matthew Harding

Growth and maturity: A quantitative systematic review and network analysis in anthropometric history pp. 107-118

Gregori Galofré-Vilà

The ‘healthy worker effect’: Do healthy people climb the occupational ladder? pp. 119-131

Joan Costa-Font and Martin Ljunge

Parental alcohol consumption and adult children's educational attainment pp. 132-145

Lucia Mangiavacchi and Luca Piccoli

The effect of social fathers on the cognitive skills of out-of-wedlock children in the U.S pp. 146-159

Kwok Ho Chan and Ka Wai Terence Fung

On the distributional and evolutionary nature of the obesity wage penalty pp. 160-172

Christian Brown and P. Wesley Routon

Revisiting the impact of macroeconomic conditions on health behaviours pp. 173-181

Giorgio Di Pietro

Volume 27, issue PA, 2017

Business cycle impacts on substance use of adolescents: A multi-country analysis pp. 1-11

Thomas Paling and Judit Vall Castello

The association between socioeconomic status and adult fast-food consumption in the U.S pp. 12-25

Jay Zagorsky and Patricia K. Smith

Low expectations: Do teachers underestimate the ability of overweight children or the children of overweight mothers? pp. 26-32

Michelle Queally, Edel Doherty, Francis M. Finucane and O’Neill, Ciaran

The structural relationship between early nutrition, cognitive skills and non-cognitive skills in four developing countries pp. 33-54

Alan Sanchez

Colonialism and genetics of comparative development pp. 55-73

Ideen Riahi

The Association between Height and Hypertension in Indonesia pp. 74-83

Kitae Sohn

The impact of childhood overweight and obesity on healthcare utilisation pp. 84-92

Edel Doherty, Michelle Queally, John Cullinan and Paddy Gillespie

Estimating sibling spillovers in health: Evidence on symptoms pp. 93-101

Cheuk Yin Ho

Performance of people with diabetes in the labor market: An empirical approach controlling for complications pp. 102-113

Beatriz Rodríguez-Sánchez and David Cantarero

Childhood obesity and maternal education in Ireland pp. 114-125

David Madden

Heterogeneity in the long term health effects of warfare pp. 126-136

Mevlude Akbulut-Yuksel and Mutlu Yuksel

Biological welfare and the commons: A natural experiment in the Alps, 1765–1845 pp. 137-153

O’Grady, Trevor and Claudio Tagliapietra

The dynamic effects of obesity on the wages of young workers pp. 154-166

Joshua Pinkston

A compensating income variation approach to valuing 34 health conditions in Iceland pp. 167-183

Tinna Laufey Asgeirsdottir, Kristin Helga Birgisdottir, Thorhildur Ólafsdóttir and Sigurdur Pall Olafsson

Multidimensional human capital formation in a developing country: Health, cognition and locus of control in the Philippines pp. 184-197

Kira M. Villa

You can be too thin (but not too tall): Social desirability bias in self-reports of weight and height pp. 198-222

Mary Burke and Katherine Carman

Body mass and wages: New evidence from quantile estimation pp. 223-240

Peter Slade

Recessions and health revisited: New findings for working age adults pp. 241-247

Benjamin Crost and Andrew Friedson

Causal effects of HIV on employment status in low-income settings pp. 248-260

Jessica Ochalek, Paul Revill and Bernard van den Berg

Economic analysis of the link between diet quality and health: Evidence from Kosovo pp. 261-274

Kushtrim Braha, Andrej Cupak, Jan Pokrivcak, Artan Qineti and Marian Rizov

Association between infection burden and adult height pp. 275-280

Dawson W. Hedges, Andrew N. Berrett, Lance D. Erickson, Bruce L. Brown and Shawn D. Gale

Cyclical unemployment and infant health pp. 281-288

Erin Kaplan, Courtney A. Collins and Frances A. Tylavsky