Economics & Human Biology

Article	Citations
In and out of unemployment—Labour market transitions and the role of testosterone	57
Vulnerability and COVID-19 infection rates: A changing relationship during the first year of the pandemic	30
The demand for a COVID-19 vaccine	28
The causal impact of fetal exposure to PM2.5 on birth outcomes: Evidence from rural China	23
People versus machines: The impact of being in an automatable job on Australian worker’s mental health and life satisfaction	23
Does searching online for vaccination information affect vaccination coverage? Evidence from Sub-Saharan African countries	22
COVID-19, deaths at home and end-of-life cancer care	21
Health insurance, labor market shocks, and mental health during the first year of the COVID-19 crisis	21
Long-term exposure to ambient PM2.5 and population health: evidence from linked census data	20
Cognitive or non-cognitive? The effect of maternal dominance on adolescent human capital: Evidence from adolescents' educational decisions	19
The challenge of estimating the direct and indirect effects of COVID-19 interventions – Toward an integrated economic and epidemiological approach	18
The impact of obesity on human capital accumulation: Exploring the driving factors	17
Heterogeneous impacts of climate change on morbidity	17
People inflows as a pandemic trigger: Evidence from a quasi-experimental study	17
Decoupling genetics from attainments: The role of social environments	16
More Than a Ban on Smoking? Behavioural Spillovers of Smoking Bans in the Workplace	16
The lingering shadow: Understanding the long-term impact of natural disasters on social trust	16
Convincing the “Herd” of immunity: Lessons from smallpox vaccination in 19th century Germany	15
The sorting effect in healthcare access: Those left behind	15
The mitigating effect of masks on the spread of Covid-19	14
Social inequalities in adult mortality across Europe (18th-21st centuries): A critical analysis of theories and evidence	13
The effect of “smoky” coal bans on chronic lung disease among older people in Ireland	13
Health welfare in the digital era: Exploring the impact of digital trade on residents' health	12
Fertility and immigration: Do immigrant mothers hand down their fertility pattern to the next generation? Evidence from Norway	12
Valuing mortality attributable to present and future temperature extremes in Argentina	12

Secular change in heights of rural adults in west-central poland between 1986 and 2016: The transition from pre- to post-communism	12
The impact of biomedical innovation on cancer mortality in 37 countries, 2003–2017	12
A copula-based approach for creating an index of micronutrient intakes at household level in Pakistan	12
Predicting depression in old age: Combining life course data with machine learning	12
Having exams during Ramadan: The case of Indonesia	11
War in Ukraine – Changing the Polish paediatric population as a consequence of forced migration (a preliminary study)	11
The fattening speed: Understanding the impact of internet speed on obesity, and the mediating role of sedentary behaviour	10
Intergenerational coresidence and the Covid-19 pandemic in the United States	10
Spousal bereavement and depression: Testing moderating effects of pre-loss circumstances and social support in India	10
Heterogeneity in disease resistance and the impact of antibiotics in the US	10
Self-employment, health, and health care: When the going gets tough, the tough get going?	10
Obesity inequality and well-being in Germany	10
Air pollution and health of working-age population: Evidence from thermal inversion	9
Early socioeconomic status, social mobility and cognitive trajectories in later life: A life course perspective	9
Severe prenatal shocks and adolescent health: Evidence from the Dutch Hunger Winter	9
Obesity And Cash Rewards	9
Educational burden reduction, educational inequality, and enrollment pressure: Evidence from China	9
The effects of social capital deprivation for wellbeing: Evidence from the Covid-19 pandemic	9
Deforestation and child health in Cambodia	8
A comment on “Treatment design, health outcomes, and demographic categories in the literature on minimum wages and health.”	8
The impact of informal and formal care disruption on older adults’ psychological distress during the COVID-19 pandemic in UK	8
Born to be wild: Second-to-fourth digit length ratio and risk preferences	8
Soda expansion in the tropics: The effect on obesity rates among women without piped water at home	8
Living standards in settler South Africa, 1865–1920	8
Parental gender preferences over three centuries: Evidence from Argentina	8
State dependence in immunization and the role of discouragement	8
Workplace autonomy and mental health	8
The height premium: A systematic review and meta-analysis	8
Stunting and wasting in a growing economy: biological living standards in Portugal during the twentieth century	7
De-normalizing smoking in urban areas: Public smoking bans and smoking prevalence	7
Paid family leave and parental investments in infant health: Evidence from California	7
Explaining adverse cholesterol levels and distinct gender patterns in an Indonesian population compared with the U.S.	7
Are stunted child – overweight mother pairs a real defined entity or a statistical artifact?	7
The geography of healthcare: Mapping patient flow and medical resource allocation in China	7
Assessing the impact of fostering on children’s outcomes in Niger	7
Digital transformation: The role of computer use in employee health	7
Old age takes its toll: Long-run projections of health-related public expenditure in Luxembourg	7
The intergenerational legacy of the 1959–1961 Great Chinese Famine on children’s cognitive development	7
Income insecurity and mental health in pandemic times	7
Exploring the hidden impact of the Covid-19 pandemic: The role of urbanization	7
Female heights and sexual dimorphism in Argentina: Data from inmates of a Buenos Aires prison, 1865–1952	7
Auspicious years, the birth of girls, and their birth outcomes	7
Employer-sponsored health insurance and labor market outcomes for men in same-sex couples: Evidence from the advent of pre-exposure prophylaxis	7
Editorial Board	6
Unconditional cash transfers, health and savings	6
Sweet or not: Using information and cognitive dissonance to nudge children toward healthier food choices	6
Influence of poverty concerns on demand for healthier processed foods: A field experiment in Mexico City	6
Adolescent girls’ empowerment policy, health awareness, and decision-making: Evidence from the SABLA program in India	6
From pandemic to endemic: Spatial-temporal patterns of influenza-like illness incidence in a Swiss canton, 1918–1924	6
The international diffusion of medical innovation since 1900: Revisiting the Preston curve	6

Editorial Board	6
Health, income, and the preston curve: A long view	6
Child health inequality in Sub-Saharan Africa	6
The value of extending healthy life expectancy: A framework for healthcare policy evaluation	6
The effects of taxation on the individual consumption of sugar-sweetened beverages	6
The “Quiet Revolution” and the cesarean section in the United States	6
Trust predicts compliance with COVID-19 containment policies: Evidence from ten countries using big data	6
Employee well-being in the digital age: Assessing the impacts of a smartphone application in the workplace	6
Temperature exposure and sleep duration: Evidence from time use surveys	6
Time preference and nutrition label use: Evidence from China	5
Fertility behaviour under geopolitical uncertainty: Evidence from Ukraine	5
Editorial Board	5
Shattered ground, shaken minds: Mental health consequences of earthquakes	5
Is household shock a boon or bane to the utilisation of preventive healthcare for children? Evidence from Uganda	5
Education and COVID-19 excess mortality	5
Harder being left behind: Health status of Indian women from migrant households	5
In the shadow of a pandemic: Informality and COVID-19 diffusion in Europe	5
Social homogeneity and spread of pandemic: Evidence from India	5
Editorial Board	5
Corrigendum to “The impact of Long-term Care Insurance on household income inequality: Evidence from China” [Econ. Hum. Biol. 59 (2025) 101519]	5
Urban-rural medical insurance integration and universal health insurance coverage in China: A quasi-experimental study	5
The “Long-arm” of chronic conditions in childhood: Evidence from Canada using linked survey-administrative data	5
Daylight duration and time allocation of children and adolescents	5
In the eye of the storm. Long-term impact of the Covid-19 pandemic on healthcare utilization in Lombardy	5
Economic development, intergenerational mobility, and health in South Korea	5
Women’s age at marriage and obesity in Pakistan	5
Responses in child health to concerted reconstruction efforts in the aftermath of the 2016 earthquake in Ecuador	5
Elections have (health) consequences: Depression, anxiety, and the 2020 presidential election	5
Empowering women, enhancing diets: The impact of women’s bargaining power on dietary quality in urban China	5
The gender wage gap across life: Effects of genetic predisposition towards higher educational attainment	5
How do basic income for elderly affect health of self-employed?	5
Pain trends and pain growth disparities, 2009–2021	5
Exposure to wildfires and health outcomes of vulnerable people: Evidence from US data	5
Growing up in a growing economy. Reassessing changes in biological living standards in Portugal during the twentieth century	5
Bodyweight and human capital development: Assessing the impact of obesity on socioemotional skills during childhood in Chile	5
Surviving the Deluge: British servicemen in World War I	4
Mother’s age at marriage and gender-differential in child schooling: Evidence from Pakistan	4
Does becoming an informal caregiver make your health worse? A longitudinal analysis across Europe	4
The full distribution of adult height in Poland: Cohorts born between 1920 and 1996. The biological cost of the economic transition	4
Maternal mortality, tuberculosis and social deprivation in Madrid during the second and third decades of the 20th century	4
State-led regional development strategy and multidimensional health poverty of the residents: Evidence from the China’s great western development program	4
The impact of lockdowns during the COVID-19 pandemic on fertility intentions	4
Mothers’ caregiving during COVID: The impact of marital property laws on women’s labor force status	4
The role of parenting style and socio-economic status in child development: Understanding the underlying dynamics	4
Rational self-medication	4
Mental health effects of social distancing in Switzerland	4
Equity in use and financing of assisted reproductive technologies: Does income matter?	4
Beyond the biological prime: Deciphering the link between child survival and maternal age in India	4
Family size and vaccination among older individuals: The case of COVID-19 vaccine	4
The relationship between oil production and infant health outcomes: Evidence from fracking boom	4
Economic costs of distancing policy interventions	4
Genetic endowments for social capital: An investigation accounting for genetic nurturing effects	4
The health consequences of returning to work after retirement: Evidence from a Japanese longitudinal survey	4
Close encounters during a pandemic: Social habits and inter-generational links in the first two waves of COVID-19	4
Cash transfers and mental health in Egypt	4
Birth weight and school performance	4
Birth order and children’s health and learning outcomes in India	4
On a tendency in health economics to dwell on income inequality and underestimate social stress	4
Maternal employment and childhood obesity in Russia	4
Global pain levels before and during the COVID-19 pandemic	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
Hypertension effects of the COVID-19 lockdowns: Evidence from a repeated cross-sectional survey in Peru	4
Short men in poor lands: The agrarian workers from southwestern Spain in anthropometric perspective	4
Gender differences in the effect of teleworking on job loss during the COVID-19 pandemic in Spain	4
When the thermometer rises, the scales tip: Extreme temperature exposure and obesity	4
Editorial Board	3
Trade liberalization and nutrition transition: Evidence from China	3
The effects of physical activity prescription on mental health: Evidence from primary care	3
Seasonal patterns in newborns’ health: Quantifying the roles of climate, communicable disease, economic and social factors	3
Mass gathering events and the spread of infectious diseases: Evidence from the early growth phase of COVID-19	3
How do childhood ADHD symptoms affect labour market outcomes?	3
How important is girls’ ‘Biological Head Start’ in explaining gender differences in education and the labour market?	3
The intergenerational association of epigenetic modifications between mothers and offspring, from birth to adolescence	3
Free to die: Economic freedoms and influenza mortality	3
Height and political activism in rural Aragón (Spain) during the 20th century. A new perspective using individual-level data	3
Smoking to your kids gain? Childhood exposure to parental smoking and obesity	3
Height and standard of living in Puerto Rico from the Spanish enlightenment to annexation by the United States, 1770–1924	3
Power to choose? Examining the link between contraceptive use decision and domestic violence	3
Intergenerational transmission of fertility in Spain among cohorts born during the first half of twentieth century	3

The impact of overweight and obesity on unemployment duration among young American workers	3
Editorial Board	3
Are austerity measures really distressing? Evidence from Italy	3
Expensive famine: Early hunger experience and diabetes treatment burden	3
The impact of new energy demonstration city policy on the mental health of middle-aged and older adults	3
Family poverty and adolescents’ cognitive and noncognitive outcomes: Evidence from China	3
Second generation effects of an experimental conditional cash transfer program on early childhood human capital in Nicaragua	3
The (birthweight) gains from trade: Chinese imports and infant health in Sub-Saharan Africa	3
Genetic nurture in educational attainment	3
Gender differences in the duration of sick leave: Economics or biology?	3
Is inconsistent reporting of self-assessed health persistent and systematic? Evidence from the UKHLS	3
County-level income inequality and suicide in the United States	3
Impacts of a minimum pricing policy on high fat, sugar and sodium (HFSS) foods: Environmental, dietary and welfare analysis	3
Spillover effects of retirement: Does health vulnerability matter?	2
The effect of combat exposure on sexually transmitted diseases	2
Migrant well-being in Australia: Does locus of control matter?	2
Response to Douglas A. Wolf comment on “Treatment design, health outcomes, and demographic categories in the literature on minimum wages and health”	2
Discrimination backfires? Minority ethnic disparities in vaccine hesitancy	2
The effect of paid parental leave on breastfeeding, parental health and behavior	2
Internet use and physical and mental health in old age during the COVID-19 pandemic: Evidence from partners in SHARE	2
The effect of hurricanes on mental health over the long term	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
High temperatures and traffic accident crimes: Evidence from more than 470,000 offenses in China	2
Impact of health insurance expansion on patients' financial burden and family well-being in South Korea	2
Teen parent trap? The education and labor implications of motherhood and fatherhood during the transition from adolescence to adulthood in Cebu, the Philippines	2
Climate change and birth outcomes – Evidence from Brazil	2
An investigation of body mass distributional changes in Australia, 1995–2017/18	2
A tale of lockdown policies on the transmission of COVID-19 within and between Chinese cities: A study based on heterogeneous treatment effect	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
Do maltreated children think of suicide more? Evidence from South Korea	2
Occupational differences in the effects of retirement on hospitalizations for mental illness among female workers: Evidence from administrative data in China	2
Fiscal externalities and underinvestment in early-life human capital: Optimal policy instruments for a developing country	2
How did the European Marriage Pattern persist? Social versus familial inheritance: England and Quebec, 1650–1850	2
Did the Finnish depression of the early 1990s have a silver lining? The effect of unemployment on long-term physical activity	2
The legacy of Agent Orange: Prenatal exposure to dioxin and human capital formation	2
Diverging destinies: How children are faring under demographic transition	2
Editorial Board	2
A comment on “Height and the standard of living in Puerto Rico from the Spanish Enlightenment to annexation by the United States, 1770–1924”	2
Studying informal care during the pandemic: mental health, gender and job status	2
Direct and crowding-out effects of a Hepatitis B vaccination campaign	2
Childhood obesity, is fast food exposure a factor?	2
Health effects of urgent care center entry: The case of WellNow	2
Childhood circumstances, social mobility and the obesity transition: Evidence from South Africa	2
No “honeymoon phase”: whose health benefits from retirement and when	2
The impact of individuals’ preventive behaviours on health and healthcare utilisation	2
Health inequality and health insurance coverage: The United States and China compared	2
Religiosity, attitudes toward science, and public health: Evidence from Finland	2
The effect of cash transfers on maternal health seeking: Evidence from Ecuador	2
Real wages around the world: Insights from linear programming and accounting for climate differences	2
In utero and childhood exposure to alcohol and old age mortality: Evidence from the temperance movement in the US	2