Economics & Human Biology

Papers
(The median citation count of Economics & Human Biology is 2. The table below lists those papers that are above that threshold based on CrossRef citation counts [max. 250 papers]. The publications cover those that have been published in the past four years, i.e., from 2022-06-01 to 2026-06-01.)
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In and out of unemployment—Labour market transitions and the role of testosterone58
People versus machines: The impact of being in an automatable job on Australian worker’s mental health and life satisfaction30
Vulnerability and COVID-19 infection rates: A changing relationship during the first year of the pandemic30
Does searching online for vaccination information affect vaccination coverage? Evidence from Sub-Saharan African countries24
Health insurance, labor market shocks, and mental health during the first year of the COVID-19 crisis24
COVID-19, deaths at home and end-of-life cancer care23
Long-term exposure to ambient PM2.5 and population health: evidence from linked census data22
Cognitive or non-cognitive? The effect of maternal dominance on adolescent human capital: Evidence from adolescents' educational decisions21
People inflows as a pandemic trigger: Evidence from a quasi-experimental study20
The impact of obesity on human capital accumulation: Exploring the driving factors20
Heterogeneous impacts of climate change on morbidity19
The causal impact of fetal exposure to PM2.5 on birth outcomes: Evidence from rural China17
The demand for a COVID-19 vaccine17
The challenge of estimating the direct and indirect effects of COVID-19 interventions – Toward an integrated economic and epidemiological approach17
Decoupling genetics from attainments: The role of social environments17
The mitigating effect of masks on the spread of Covid-1916
The sorting effect in healthcare access: Those left behind16
More Than a Ban on Smoking? Behavioural Spillovers of Smoking Bans in the Workplace16
Convincing the “Herd” of immunity: Lessons from smallpox vaccination in 19th century Germany16
Social inequalities in adult mortality across Europe (18th-21st centuries): A critical analysis of theories and evidence14
The effect of “smoky” coal bans on chronic lung disease among older people in Ireland14
Health welfare in the digital era: Exploring the impact of digital trade on residents' health13
The lingering shadow: Understanding the long-term impact of natural disasters on social trust13
Secular change in heights of rural adults in west-central poland between 1986 and 2016: The transition from pre- to post-communism13
A copula-based approach for creating an index of micronutrient intakes at household level in Pakistan12
The fattening speed: Understanding the impact of internet speed on obesity, and the mediating role of sedentary behaviour12
Predicting depression in old age: Combining life course data with machine learning12
War in Ukraine – Changing the Polish paediatric population as a consequence of forced migration (a preliminary study)12
Fertility and immigration: Do immigrant mothers hand down their fertility pattern to the next generation? Evidence from Norway12
The impact of biomedical innovation on cancer mortality in 37 countries, 2003–201712
Valuing mortality attributable to present and future temperature extremes in Argentina11
Having exams during Ramadan: The case of Indonesia11
Intergenerational coresidence and the Covid-19 pandemic in the United States10
Obesity And Cash Rewards10
Self-employment, health, and health care: When the going gets tough, the tough get going?10
Obesity inequality and well-being in Germany10
Air pollution and health of working-age population: Evidence from thermal inversion10
Spousal bereavement and depression: Testing moderating effects of pre-loss circumstances and social support in India10
Educational burden reduction, educational inequality, and enrollment pressure: Evidence from China10
Heterogeneity in disease resistance and the impact of antibiotics in the US10
Early socioeconomic status, social mobility and cognitive trajectories in later life: A life course perspective9
The effects of social capital deprivation for wellbeing: Evidence from the Covid-19 pandemic9
The impact of heat and cold on mortality and life expectancy in Europe, 2015–20249
Born to be wild: Second-to-fourth digit length ratio and risk preferences9
Severe prenatal shocks and adolescent health: Evidence from the Dutch Hunger Winter9
De-normalizing smoking in urban areas: Public smoking bans and smoking prevalence8
Living standards in settler South Africa, 1865–19208
Income insecurity and mental health in pandemic times8
The impact of informal and formal care disruption on older adults’ psychological distress during the COVID-19 pandemic in UK8
Editorial Board8
Stunting and wasting in a growing economy: biological living standards in Portugal during the twentieth century8
Soda expansion in the tropics: The effect on obesity rates among women without piped water at home8
Parental gender preferences over three centuries: Evidence from Argentina8
The geography of healthcare: Mapping patient flow and medical resource allocation in China8
Deforestation and child health in Cambodia8
A comment on “Treatment design, health outcomes, and demographic categories in the literature on minimum wages and health.”8
Workplace autonomy and mental health8
The height premium: A systematic review and meta-analysis8
State dependence in immunization and the role of discouragement8
The intergenerational legacy of the 1959–1961 Great Chinese Famine on children’s cognitive development7
Female heights and sexual dimorphism in Argentina: Data from inmates of a Buenos Aires prison, 1865–19527
Explaining adverse cholesterol levels and distinct gender patterns in an Indonesian population compared with the U.S.7
The “Quiet Revolution” and the cesarean section in the United States7
Sweet or not: Using information and cognitive dissonance to nudge children toward healthier food choices7
Exploring the hidden impact of the Covid-19 pandemic: The role of urbanization7
Assessing the impact of fostering on children’s outcomes in Niger7
Old age takes its toll: Long-run projections of health-related public expenditure in Luxembourg7
The effects of taxation on the individual consumption of sugar-sweetened beverages7
Employer-sponsored health insurance and labor market outcomes for men in same-sex couples: Evidence from the advent of pre-exposure prophylaxis7
Auspicious years, the birth of girls, and their birth outcomes7
Paid family leave and parental investments in infant health: Evidence from California7
Digital transformation: The role of computer use in employee health7
Are stunted child – overweight mother pairs a real defined entity or a statistical artifact?7
Unconditional cash transfers, health and savings7
In the shadow of a pandemic: Informality and COVID-19 diffusion in Europe6
Is household shock a boon or bane to the utilisation of preventive healthcare for children? Evidence from Uganda6
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Adolescent girls’ empowerment policy, health awareness, and decision-making: Evidence from the SABLA program in India6
The value of extending healthy life expectancy: A framework for healthcare policy evaluation6
Harder being left behind: Health status of Indian women from migrant households6
How do basic income for elderly affect health of self-employed?6
Temperature exposure and sleep duration: Evidence from time use surveys6
Economic development, intergenerational mobility, and health in South Korea6
From pandemic to endemic: Spatial-temporal patterns of influenza-like illness incidence in a Swiss canton, 1918–19246
Influence of poverty concerns on demand for healthier processed foods: A field experiment in Mexico City6
Health, income, and the preston curve: A long view6
In the eye of the storm. Long-term impact of the Covid-19 pandemic on healthcare utilization in Lombardy6
Daylight duration and time allocation of children and adolescents6
The international diffusion of medical innovation since 1900: Revisiting the Preston curve6
Child health inequality in Sub-Saharan Africa6
Employee well-being in the digital age: Assessing the impacts of a smartphone application in the workplace6
Trust predicts compliance with COVID-19 containment policies: Evidence from ten countries using big data6
Fertility behaviour under geopolitical uncertainty: Evidence from Ukraine5
Corrigendum to “The impact of Long-term Care Insurance on household income inequality: Evidence from China” [Econ. Hum. Biol. 59 (2025) 101519]5
Surviving the Deluge: British servicemen in World War I5
Bodyweight and human capital development: Assessing the impact of obesity on socioemotional skills during childhood in Chile5
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Time preference and nutrition label use: Evidence from China5
Education and COVID-19 excess mortality5
Responses in child health to concerted reconstruction efforts in the aftermath of the 2016 earthquake in Ecuador5
Urban-rural medical insurance integration and universal health insurance coverage in China: A quasi-experimental study5
Mental health effects of social distancing in Switzerland5
When the thermometer rises, the scales tip: Extreme temperature exposure and obesity5
The height of Swiss mercenaries, c. 1725 – c. 18655
Shattered ground, shaken minds: Mental health consequences of earthquakes5
Elections have (health) consequences: Depression, anxiety, and the 2020 presidential election5
Growing up in a growing economy. Reassessing changes in biological living standards in Portugal during the twentieth century5
Empowering women, enhancing diets: The impact of women’s bargaining power on dietary quality in urban China5
Women’s age at marriage and obesity in Pakistan5
Birth order and children’s health and learning outcomes in India5
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 attainment5
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Social homogeneity and spread of pandemic: Evidence from India5
Pain trends and pain growth disparities, 2009–20215
Exposure to wildfires and health outcomes of vulnerable people: Evidence from US data5
The “Long-arm” of chronic conditions in childhood: Evidence from Canada using linked survey-administrative data5
Close encounters during a pandemic: Social habits and inter-generational links in the first two waves of COVID-194
Rational self-medication4
The role of parenting style and socio-economic status in child development: Understanding the underlying dynamics4
Genetic endowments for social capital: An investigation accounting for genetic nurturing effects4
Silver bullet? The effect of mask mandates on COVID-19 cases4
Does becoming an informal caregiver make your health worse? A longitudinal analysis across Europe4
Race, immunity, and lifespan: Unraveling the effect of early-life exposure to malaria risk on lifespan4
On a tendency in health economics to dwell on income inequality and underestimate social stress4
Birth weight and school performance4
Hypertension effects of the COVID-19 lockdowns: Evidence from a repeated cross-sectional survey in Peru4
The health consequences of returning to work after retirement: Evidence from a Japanese longitudinal survey4
Invisible killer under the blue sky:Ozone pollution and infant mortality in China4
State-led regional development strategy and multidimensional health poverty of the residents: Evidence from the China’s great western development program4
Family poverty and adolescents’ cognitive and noncognitive outcomes: Evidence from China4
Economic costs of distancing policy interventions4
The full distribution of adult height in Poland: Cohorts born between 1920 and 1996. The biological cost of the economic transition4
Mothers’ caregiving during COVID: The impact of marital property laws on women’s labor force status4
Gender differences in the effect of teleworking on job loss during the COVID-19 pandemic in Spain4
Short men in poor lands: The agrarian workers from southwestern Spain in anthropometric perspective4
Beyond the biological prime: Deciphering the link between child survival and maternal age in India4
The relationship between oil production and infant health outcomes: Evidence from fracking boom4
The impact of lockdowns during the COVID-19 pandemic on fertility intentions4
Global pain levels before and during the COVID-19 pandemic4
Cash transfers and mental health in Egypt4
Mother’s age at marriage and gender-differential in child schooling: Evidence from Pakistan4
Are austerity measures really distressing? Evidence from Italy3
Free to die: Economic freedoms and influenza mortality3
Maternal employment and childhood obesity in Russia3
The effects of physical activity prescription on mental health: Evidence from primary care3
The (birthweight) gains from trade: Chinese imports and infant health in Sub-Saharan Africa3
Gender differences in the duration of sick leave: Economics or biology?3
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Trade liberalization and nutrition transition: Evidence from China3
Height and standard of living in Puerto Rico from the Spanish enlightenment to annexation by the United States, 1770–19243
Height and political activism in rural Aragón (Spain) during the 20th century. A new perspective using individual-level data3
Smoking to your kids gain? Childhood exposure to parental smoking and obesity3
The impact of new energy demonstration city policy on the mental health of middle-aged and older adults3
Maternal mortality, tuberculosis and social deprivation in Madrid during the second and third decades of the 20th century3
How important is girls’ ‘Biological Head Start’ in explaining gender differences in education and the labour market?3
Second generation effects of an experimental conditional cash transfer program on early childhood human capital in Nicaragua3
Power to choose? Examining the link between contraceptive use decision and domestic violence3
Climate change and birth outcomes – Evidence from Brazil3
The impact of overweight and obesity on unemployment duration among young American workers3
How do childhood ADHD symptoms affect labour market outcomes?3
Impacts of a minimum pricing policy on high fat, sugar and sodium (HFSS) foods: Environmental, dietary and welfare analysis3
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Family size and vaccination among older individuals: The case of COVID-19 vaccine3
County-level income inequality and suicide in the United States3
Expensive famine: Early hunger experience and diabetes treatment burden3
Mass gathering events and the spread of infectious diseases: Evidence from the early growth phase of COVID-193
Intergenerational transmission of fertility in Spain among cohorts born during the first half of twentieth century3
Genetic nurture in educational attainment3
Is inconsistent reporting of self-assessed health persistent and systematic? Evidence from the UKHLS3
The intergenerational association of epigenetic modifications between mothers and offspring, from birth to adolescence3
Diverging destinies: How children are faring under demographic transition2
Impact of health insurance expansion on patients' financial burden and family well-being in South Korea2
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Spillover effects of retirement: Does health vulnerability matter?2
The effect of cash transfers on maternal health seeking: Evidence from Ecuador2
Sleep hours fall as income rises: Macro and micro evidence on sleep inequality around the world2
Occupational differences in the effects of retirement on hospitalizations for mental illness among female workers: Evidence from administrative data in China2
Health inequality and health insurance coverage: The United States and China compared2
The effect of paid parental leave on breastfeeding, parental health and behavior2
Studying informal care during the pandemic: mental health, gender and job status2
Did the Finnish depression of the early 1990s have a silver lining? The effect of unemployment on long-term physical activity2
No “honeymoon phase”: whose health benefits from retirement and when2
Real wages around the world: Insights from linear programming and accounting for climate differences2
A tale of lockdown policies on the transmission of COVID-19 within and between Chinese cities: A study based on heterogeneous treatment effect2
Direct and crowding-out effects of a Hepatitis B vaccination campaign2
An investigation of body mass distributional changes in Australia, 1995–2017/182
The effect of combat exposure on sexually transmitted diseases2
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 hesitancy2
Internet use and physical and mental health in old age during the COVID-19 pandemic: Evidence from partners in SHARE2
Childhood circumstances, social mobility and the obesity transition: Evidence from South Africa2
The impact of individuals’ preventive behaviours on health and healthcare utilisation2
The effect of hurricanes on mental health over the long term2
Migrant well-being in Australia: Does locus of control matter?2
Religiosity, attitudes toward science, and public health: Evidence from Finland2
How did the European Marriage Pattern persist? Social versus familial inheritance: England and Quebec, 1650–18502
Seasonal patterns in newborns’ health: Quantifying the roles of climate, communicable disease, economic and social factors2
The legacy of Agent Orange: Prenatal exposure to dioxin and human capital formation2
In utero and childhood exposure to alcohol and old age mortality: Evidence from the temperance movement in the US2
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
The illness trap: The impact of disability benefits on willingness to receive HCV treatment2
Exposure to Islamophobia: The impacts of an increased risk of bullying victimization on human capital2
Do maltreated children think of suicide more? Evidence from South Korea2
Childhood obesity, is fast food exposure a factor?2
Fiscal externalities and underinvestment in early-life human capital: Optimal policy instruments for a developing country2
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 China2
High temperatures and traffic accident crimes: Evidence from more than 470,000 offenses in China2
Teen parent trap? The education and labor implications of motherhood and fatherhood during the transition from adolescence to adulthood in Cebu, the Philippines2
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