Economics & Human Biology

Article	Citations
In and out of unemployment—Labour market transitions and the role of testosterone	59
Vulnerability and COVID-19 infection rates: A changing relationship during the first year of the pandemic	32
People versus machines: The impact of being in an automatable job on Australian worker’s mental health and life satisfaction	30
Does searching online for vaccination information affect vaccination coverage? Evidence from Sub-Saharan African countries	27
Health insurance, labor market shocks, and mental health during the first year of the COVID-19 crisis	26
COVID-19, deaths at home and end-of-life cancer care	25
Long-term exposure to ambient PM2.5 and population health: evidence from linked census data	23
Cognitive or non-cognitive? The effect of maternal dominance on adolescent human capital: Evidence from adolescents' educational decisions	22
The challenge of estimating the direct and indirect effects of COVID-19 interventions – Toward an integrated economic and epidemiological approach	20
The impact of obesity on human capital accumulation: Exploring the driving factors	20
The demand for a COVID-19 vaccine	20
People inflows as a pandemic trigger: Evidence from a quasi-experimental study	20
Heterogeneous impacts of climate change on morbidity	20
More Than a Ban on Smoking? Behavioural Spillovers of Smoking Bans in the Workplace	17
The causal impact of fetal exposure to PM2.5 on birth outcomes: Evidence from rural China	17
Decoupling genetics from attainments: The role of social environments	17
The mitigating effect of masks on the spread of Covid-19	17
The sorting effect in healthcare access: Those left behind	16
Convincing the “Herd” of immunity: Lessons from smallpox vaccination in 19th century Germany	16
Health welfare in the digital era: Exploring the impact of digital trade on residents' health	14
The effect of “smoky” coal bans on chronic lung disease among older people in Ireland	14
Social inequalities in adult mortality across Europe (18th-21st centuries): A critical analysis of theories and evidence	14
The lingering shadow: Understanding the long-term impact of natural disasters on social trust	14
Having exams during Ramadan: The case of Indonesia	13
Secular change in heights of rural adults in west-central poland between 1986 and 2016: The transition from pre- to post-communism	13

Predicting depression in old age: Combining life course data with machine learning	13
Fertility and immigration: Do immigrant mothers hand down their fertility pattern to the next generation? Evidence from Norway	13
War in Ukraine – Changing the Polish paediatric population as a consequence of forced migration (a preliminary study)	13
A copula-based approach for creating an index of micronutrient intakes at household level in Pakistan	13
The impact of biomedical innovation on cancer mortality in 37 countries, 2003–2017	13
The fattening speed: Understanding the impact of internet speed on obesity, and the mediating role of sedentary behaviour	13
Self-employment, health, and health care: When the going gets tough, the tough get going?	12
Valuing mortality attributable to present and future temperature extremes in Argentina	12
Spousal bereavement and depression: Testing moderating effects of pre-loss circumstances and social support in India	12
Intergenerational coresidence and the Covid-19 pandemic in the United States	11
Obesity inequality and well-being in Germany	10
Educational burden reduction, educational inequality, and enrollment pressure: Evidence from China	10
The effects of social capital deprivation for wellbeing: Evidence from the Covid-19 pandemic	10
The impact of heat and cold on mortality and life expectancy in Europe, 2015–2024	10
Heterogeneity in disease resistance and the impact of antibiotics in the US	10
Early socioeconomic status, social mobility and cognitive trajectories in later life: A life course perspective	10
Air pollution and health of working-age population: Evidence from thermal inversion	10
Severe prenatal shocks and adolescent health: Evidence from the Dutch Hunger Winter	10
Obesity And Cash Rewards	10
Deforestation and child health in Cambodia	10
State dependence in immunization and the role of discouragement	9
Soda expansion in the tropics: The effect on obesity rates among women without piped water at home	9
A comment on “Treatment design, health outcomes, and demographic categories in the literature on minimum wages and health.”	9
Income insecurity and mental health in pandemic times	9
Born to be wild: Second-to-fourth digit length ratio and risk preferences	9
Editorial Board	9
Living standards in settler South Africa, 1865–1920	9
The impact of informal and formal care disruption on older adults’ psychological distress during the COVID-19 pandemic in UK	8
Workplace autonomy and mental health	8
De-normalizing smoking in urban areas: Public smoking bans and smoking prevalence	8
Female heights and sexual dimorphism in Argentina: Data from inmates of a Buenos Aires prison, 1865–1952	8
Auspicious years, the birth of girls, and their birth outcomes	8
The “Quiet Revolution” and the cesarean section in the United States	8
Exploring the hidden impact of the Covid-19 pandemic: The role of urbanization	8
Parental gender preferences over three centuries: Evidence from Argentina	8
The geography of healthcare: Mapping patient flow and medical resource allocation in China	8
Paid family leave and parental investments in infant health: Evidence from California	8
The intergenerational legacy of the 1959–1961 Great Chinese Famine on children’s cognitive development	8
Employer-sponsored health insurance and labor market outcomes for men in same-sex couples: Evidence from the advent of pre-exposure prophylaxis	8
Unconditional cash transfers, health and savings	8
Stunting and wasting in a growing economy: biological living standards in Portugal during the twentieth century	8
The height premium: A systematic review and meta-analysis	8
Assessing the impact of fostering on children’s outcomes in Niger	8
Digital transformation: The role of computer use in employee health	8
Are stunted child – overweight mother pairs a real defined entity or a statistical artifact?	8
Editorial Board	8
Sweet or not: Using information and cognitive dissonance to nudge children toward healthier food choices	7
Economic development, intergenerational mobility, and health in South Korea	7
Child health inequality in Sub-Saharan Africa	7
Trust predicts compliance with COVID-19 containment policies: Evidence from ten countries using big data	7

The effects of taxation on the individual consumption of sugar-sweetened beverages	7
Explaining adverse cholesterol levels and distinct gender patterns in an Indonesian population compared with the U.S.	7
From pandemic to endemic: Spatial-temporal patterns of influenza-like illness incidence in a Swiss canton, 1918–1924	7
The value of extending healthy life expectancy: A framework for healthcare policy evaluation	7
Temperature exposure and sleep duration: Evidence from time use surveys	7
Old age takes its toll: Long-run projections of health-related public expenditure in Luxembourg	7
Influence of poverty concerns on demand for healthier processed foods: A field experiment in Mexico City	7
The international diffusion of medical innovation since 1900: Revisiting the Preston curve	7
Adolescent girls’ empowerment policy, health awareness, and decision-making: Evidence from the SABLA program in India	7
Editorial Board	7
The “Long-arm” of chronic conditions in childhood: Evidence from Canada using linked survey-administrative data	6
Harder being left behind: Health status of Indian women from migrant households	6
Is household shock a boon or bane to the utilisation of preventive healthcare for children? Evidence from Uganda	6
Exposure to wildfires and health outcomes of vulnerable people: Evidence from US data	6
Editorial Board	6
In the eye of the storm. Long-term impact of the Covid-19 pandemic on healthcare utilization in Lombardy	6
Daylight duration and time allocation of children and adolescents	6
Employee well-being in the digital age: Assessing the impacts of a smartphone application in the workplace	6
In the shadow of a pandemic: Informality and COVID-19 diffusion in Europe	6
Women’s age at marriage and obesity in Pakistan	6
Social homogeneity and spread of pandemic: Evidence from India	6
Fertility behaviour under geopolitical uncertainty: Evidence from Ukraine	6
Elections have (health) consequences: Depression, anxiety, and the 2020 presidential election	6
Health, income, and the preston curve: A long view	6
How do basic income for elderly affect health of self-employed?	6
Growing up in a growing economy. Reassessing changes in biological living standards in Portugal during the twentieth century	6
Time preference and nutrition label use: Evidence from China	6
Pain trends and pain growth disparities, 2009–2021	6
Education and COVID-19 excess mortality	6
Urban-rural medical insurance integration and universal health insurance coverage in China: A quasi-experimental study	5
Cash transfers and mental health in Egypt	5
The full distribution of adult height in Poland: Cohorts born between 1920 and 1996. The biological cost of the economic transition	5
On a tendency in health economics to dwell on income inequality and underestimate social stress	5
Close encounters during a pandemic: Social habits and inter-generational links in the first two waves of COVID-19	5
Rational self-medication	5
Editorial Board	5
The height of Swiss mercenaries, c. 1725 – c. 1865	5
Empowering women, enhancing diets: The impact of women’s bargaining power on dietary quality in urban China	5
Birth order and children’s health and learning outcomes in India	5
Surviving the Deluge: British servicemen in World War I	5
Mother’s age at marriage and gender-differential in child schooling: Evidence from Pakistan	5
Mothers’ caregiving during COVID: The impact of marital property laws on women’s labor force status	5
Hypertension effects of the COVID-19 lockdowns: Evidence from a repeated cross-sectional survey in Peru	5
Mental health effects of social distancing in Switzerland	5
When the thermometer rises, the scales tip: Extreme temperature exposure and obesity	5
Shattered ground, shaken minds: Mental health consequences of earthquakes	5
Bodyweight and human capital development: Assessing the impact of obesity on socioemotional skills during childhood in Chile	5
The health consequences of returning to work after retirement: Evidence from a Japanese longitudinal survey	5
Gender differences in the effect of teleworking on job loss during the COVID-19 pandemic in Spain	5
The role of parenting style and socio-economic status in child development: Understanding the underlying dynamics	5
Short men in poor lands: The agrarian workers from southwestern Spain in anthropometric perspective	5
Birth weight and school performance	5
Corrigendum to “The impact of Long-term Care Insurance on household income inequality: Evidence from China” [Econ. Hum. Biol. 59 (2025) 101519]	5
Equity in use and financing of assisted reproductive technologies: Does income matter?	5
The gender wage gap across life: Effects of genetic predisposition towards higher educational attainment	5
Responses in child health to concerted reconstruction efforts in the aftermath of the 2016 earthquake in Ecuador	5
Family poverty and adolescents’ cognitive and noncognitive outcomes: Evidence from China	4
The impact of lockdowns during the COVID-19 pandemic on fertility intentions	4
Economic costs of distancing policy interventions	4
Does becoming an informal caregiver make your health worse? A longitudinal analysis across Europe	4
The impact of new energy demonstration city policy on the mental health of middle-aged and older adults	4
The effects of physical activity prescription on mental health: Evidence from primary care	4
Invisible killer under the blue sky：Ozone pollution and infant mortality in China	4
Race, immunity, and lifespan: Unraveling the effect of early-life exposure to malaria risk on lifespan	4
Genetic endowments for social capital: An investigation accounting for genetic nurturing effects	4
The relationship between oil production and infant health outcomes: Evidence from fracking boom	4
State-led regional development strategy and multidimensional health poverty of the residents: Evidence from the China’s great western development program	4
Maternal mortality, tuberculosis and social deprivation in Madrid during the second and third decades of the 20th century	4
Silver bullet? The effect of mask mandates on COVID-19 cases	4
Beyond the biological prime: Deciphering the link between child survival and maternal age in India	4
Global pain levels before and during the COVID-19 pandemic	4
Maternal employment and childhood obesity in Russia	4
Family size and vaccination among older individuals: The case of COVID-19 vaccine	4
Climate change and birth outcomes – Evidence from Brazil	3
Smoking to your kids gain? Childhood exposure to parental smoking and obesity	3
Free to die: Economic freedoms and influenza mortality	3
Intergenerational transmission of fertility in Spain among cohorts born during the first half of twentieth century	3
Teen parent trap? The education and labor implications of motherhood and fatherhood during the transition from adolescence to adulthood in Cebu, the Philippines	3
The legacy of Agent Orange: Prenatal exposure to dioxin and human capital formation	3
Trade liberalization and nutrition transition: Evidence from China	3

The effect of cash transfers on maternal health seeking: Evidence from Ecuador	3
How important is girls’ ‘Biological Head Start’ in explaining gender differences in education and the labour market?	3
An investigation of body mass distributional changes in Australia, 1995–2017/18	3
Second generation effects of an experimental conditional cash transfer program on early childhood human capital in Nicaragua	3
The effect of combat exposure on sexually transmitted diseases	3
Mass gathering events and the spread of infectious diseases: Evidence from the early growth phase of COVID-19	3
Are austerity measures really distressing? Evidence from Italy	3
Expensive famine: Early hunger experience and diabetes treatment burden	3
Gender differences in the duration of sick leave: Economics or biology?	3
Editorial Board	3
Editorial Board	3
Seasonal patterns in newborns’ health: Quantifying the roles of climate, communicable disease, economic and social factors	3
Is inconsistent reporting of self-assessed health persistent and systematic? Evidence from the UKHLS	3
Editorial Board	3
Height and standard of living in Puerto Rico from the Spanish enlightenment to annexation by the United States, 1770–1924	3
A comment on “Height and the standard of living in Puerto Rico from the Spanish Enlightenment to annexation by the United States, 1770–1924”	3
County-level income inequality and suicide in the United States	3
Genetic nurture in educational attainment	3
Direct and crowding-out effects of a Hepatitis B vaccination campaign	3
Impacts of a minimum pricing policy on high fat, sugar and sodium (HFSS) foods: Environmental, dietary and welfare analysis	3
The intergenerational association of epigenetic modifications between mothers and offspring, from birth to adolescence	3
Height and political activism in rural Aragón (Spain) during the 20th century. A new perspective using individual-level data	3
Power to choose? Examining the link between contraceptive use decision and domestic violence	3
In utero and childhood exposure to alcohol and old age mortality: Evidence from the temperance movement in the US	3
How do childhood ADHD symptoms affect labour market outcomes?	3
Impact of health insurance expansion on patients' financial burden and family well-being in South Korea	3
The impact of overweight and obesity on unemployment duration among young American workers	3
A tale of lockdown policies on the transmission of COVID-19 within and between Chinese cities: A study based on heterogeneous treatment effect	3
The (birthweight) gains from trade: Chinese imports and infant health in Sub-Saharan Africa	3
Spillover effects of retirement: Does health vulnerability matter?	3
Real wages around the world: Insights from linear programming and accounting for climate differences	2
The relationship between Marriage and Body Mass Index in China：Evidence from the China Health and Nutrition Survey	2
Biases in medical decision-making: A cross-medication comparison	2
Association of cigarette smoking with changes in macroeconomic conditions	2
The effect of pharmaceutical innovation on longevity: Evidence from the U.S. and 26 high-income countries	2
High temperatures and traffic accident crimes: Evidence from more than 470,000 offenses in China	2
The effect of paid parental leave on breastfeeding, parental health and behavior	2
Fiscal externalities and underinvestment in early-life human capital: Optimal policy instruments for a developing country	2
Occupational differences in the effects of retirement on hospitalizations for mental illness among female workers: Evidence from administrative data in China	2
The impact of individuals’ preventive behaviours on health and healthcare utilisation	2
Response to Douglas A. Wolf comment on “Treatment design, health outcomes, and demographic categories in the literature on minimum wages and health”	2
Migrant well-being in Australia: Does locus of control matter?	2
Did the Finnish depression of the early 1990s have a silver lining? The effect of unemployment on long-term physical activity	2
Sleep hours fall as income rises: Macro and micro evidence on sleep inequality around the world	2
Internet use and physical and mental health in old age during the COVID-19 pandemic: Evidence from partners in SHARE	2
Patient selection or rational patient choice? Insights from a hospital competition model with heterogeneous agents	2
Economic freedom and gender health gap in the E.U.	2
No “honeymoon phase”: whose health benefits from retirement and when	2
Assessing the effectiveness of mandatory outdoor mask policy: The natural experiment of Campania	2
Childhood circumstances, social mobility and the obesity transition: Evidence from South Africa	2
Do maltreated children think of suicide more? Evidence from South Korea	2
How did the European Marriage Pattern persist? Social versus familial inheritance: England and Quebec, 1650–1850	2
Assessing the effectiveness of international government responses to the COVID-19 pandemic	2
The illness trap: The impact of disability benefits on willingness to receive HCV treatment	2
Exposure to Islamophobia: The impacts of an increased risk of bullying victimization on human capital	2
Studying informal care during the pandemic: mental health, gender and job status	2
Childhood obesity, is fast food exposure a factor?	2
Labour market implications of thyroid dysfunctions	2
COVID-19 transmission in a resource dependent community with heterogeneous populations: An agent-based modeling approach	2
The long-run and intergenerational impact of early exposure to the Great Chinese Famine of 1959–61 on mental health	2
Immigration policy shocks and infant health	2
Height development trends among 7–18-year-old school-age children in central plains of China between 2000 and 2019: A serial cross-sectional surveillance study in China	2
Height self-selection of internal migrants in Italy in the second half of the twentieth century	2
Religiosity, attitudes toward science, and public health: Evidence from Finland	2
Health effects of urgent care center entry: The case of WellNow	2
The effect of hurricanes on mental health over the long term	2
Discrimination backfires? Minority ethnic disparities in vaccine hesitancy	2
Diverging destinies: How children are faring under demographic transition	2
Health inequality and health insurance coverage: The United States and China compared	2