Economics & Human Biology

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Cognitive or non-cognitive? The effect of maternal dominance on adolescent human capital: Evidence from adolescents' educational decisions	48
Vulnerability and COVID-19 infection rates: A changing relationship during the first year of the pandemic	38
Long-term exposure to ambient PM2.5 and population health: evidence from linked census data	26
Health insurance, labor market shocks, and mental health during the first year of the COVID-19 crisis	24
In and out of unemployment—Labour market transitions and the role of testosterone	22
The demand for a COVID-19 vaccine	21
COVID-19, deaths at home and end-of-life cancer care	21
Heterogeneous impacts of climate change on morbidity	20
The challenge of estimating the direct and indirect effects of COVID-19 interventions – Toward an integrated economic and epidemiological approach	20
The causal impact of fetal exposure to PM2.5 on birth outcomes: Evidence from rural China	19
The impact of obesity on human capital accumulation: Exploring the driving factors	18
People versus machines: The impact of being in an automatable job on Australian worker’s mental health and life satisfaction	18
Does searching online for vaccination information affect vaccination coverage? Evidence from Sub-Saharan African countries	17
People inflows as a pandemic trigger: Evidence from a quasi-experimental study	17
The mitigating effect of masks on the spread of Covid-19	17
Social inequalities in adult mortality across Europe (18th-21st centuries): A critical analysis of theories and evidence	16
More Than a Ban on Smoking? Behavioural Spillovers of Smoking Bans in the Workplace	16
Convincing the “Herd” of immunity: Lessons from smallpox vaccination in 19th century Germany	15
The effect of “smoky” coal bans on chronic lung disease among older people in Ireland	14
The sorting effect in healthcare access: Those left behind	14
Decoupling genetics from attainments: The role of social environments	14
Wrong place, wrong time: The long-run effects of in-utero exposure to malaria on educational attainment	13
Predicting depression in old age: Combining life course data with machine learning	13
Health welfare in the digital era: Exploring the impact of digital trade on residents' health	13
Fertility and immigration: Do immigrant mothers hand down their fertility pattern to the next generation? Evidence from Norway	13

Secular change in heights of rural adults in west-central poland between 1986 and 2016: The transition from pre- to post-communism	13
A copula-based approach for creating an index of micronutrient intakes at household level in Pakistan	13
The fattening speed: Understanding the impact of internet speed on obesity, and the mediating role of sedentary behaviour	12
The impact of biomedical innovation on cancer mortality in 37 countries, 2003–2017	12
Valuing mortality attributable to present and future temperature extremes in Argentina	12
International travel in times of the COVID-19 pandemic: The case of German school breaks	11
The long-run effects of adolescent athletic participation on women’s health	11
War in Ukraine – Changing the Polish paediatric population as a consequence of forced migration (a preliminary study)	11
Intergenerational coresidence and the Covid-19 pandemic in the United States	11
Having exams during Ramadan: The case of Indonesia	11
Obesity inequality and well-being in Germany	10
Early socioeconomic status, social mobility and cognitive trajectories in later life: A life course perspective	10
Heterogeneity in disease resistance and the impact of antibiotics in the US	10
Educational burden reduction, educational inequality, and enrollment pressure: Evidence from China	9
Severe prenatal shocks and adolescent health: Evidence from the Dutch Hunger Winter	9
Air pollution and health of working-age population: Evidence from thermal inversion	9
Obesity And Cash Rewards	9
The effects of social capital deprivation for wellbeing: Evidence from the Covid-19 pandemic	9
The height premium: A systematic review and meta-analysis	8
State dependence in immunization and the role of discouragement	8
Deforestation and child health in Cambodia	8
Living standards in settler South Africa, 1865–1920	8
Income insecurity and mental health in pandemic times	8
A comment on “Treatment design, health outcomes, and demographic categories in the literature on minimum wages and health.”	8
Born to be wild: Second-to-fourth digit length ratio and risk preferences	8
Parental gender preferences over three centuries: Evidence from Argentina	8
Soda expansion in the tropics: The effect on obesity rates among women without piped water at home	8
Workplace autonomy and mental health	8
The geography of healthcare: Mapping patient flow and medical resource allocation in China	7
The intergenerational legacy of the 1959–1961 Great Chinese Famine on children’s cognitive development	7
Editorial Board	7
Gender inequality in nutrition intake: Evidence from a large assistance program	7
Unconditional cash transfers, health and savings	7
The impact of informal and formal care disruption on older adults’ psychological distress during the COVID-19 pandemic in UK	7
Assessing the impact of fostering on children’s outcomes in Niger	7
Exploring the hidden impact of the Covid-19 pandemic: The role of urbanization	7
Auspicious years, the birth of girls, and their birth outcomes	7
Are stunted child – overweight mother pairs a real defined entity or a statistical artifact?	7
Stunting and wasting in a growing economy: biological living standards in Portugal during the twentieth century	7
Digital transformation: The role of computer use in employee health	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
De-normalizing smoking in urban areas: Public smoking bans and smoking prevalence	7
Employee well-being in the digital age: Assessing the impacts of a smartphone application in the workplace	6
The “Quiet Revolution” and the cesarean section in the United States	6
The impacts of the Free Semester program on students’ exam nervousness	6
The origins of cognitive skills and non-cognitive skills: The long-term effect of in-utero rainfall shocks in India	6
Economic development, intergenerational mobility, and health in South Korea	6
The effects of taxation on the individual consumption of sugar-sweetened beverages	6
Adolescent girls’ empowerment policy, health awareness, and decision-making: Evidence from the SABLA program in India	6

Influence of poverty concerns on demand for healthier processed foods: A field experiment in Mexico City	6
The impact of a malaria elimination initiative on school outcomes: Evidence from Southern Mozambique	6
From pandemic to endemic: Spatial-temporal patterns of influenza-like illness incidence in a Swiss canton, 1918–1924	6
Temperature exposure and sleep duration: Evidence from time use surveys	6
Sweet or not: Using information and cognitive dissonance to nudge children toward healthier food choices	6
Health, income, and the preston curve: A long view	6
Depression and labor supply: Evidence from the Netherlands	6
Editorial Board	6
The value of extending healthy life expectancy: A framework for healthcare policy evaluation	6
Effects of welfare reform on household food insecurity across generations	6
Employer-sponsored health insurance and labor market outcomes for men in same-sex couples: Evidence from the advent of pre-exposure prophylaxis	6
Old age takes its toll: Long-run projections of health-related public expenditure in Luxembourg	6
Empowering women, enhancing diets: The impact of women’s bargaining power on dietary quality in urban China	5
Time preference and nutrition label use: Evidence from China	5
Pain trends and pain growth disparities, 2009–2021	5
Trust predicts compliance with COVID-19 containment policies: Evidence from ten countries using big data	5
Harder being left behind: Health status of Indian women from migrant households	5
The “Long-arm” of chronic conditions in childhood: Evidence from Canada using linked survey-administrative data	5
Women’s age at marriage and obesity in Pakistan	5
Elections have (health) consequences: Depression, anxiety, and the 2020 presidential election	5
Social homogeneity and spread of pandemic: Evidence from India	5
Bodyweight and human capital development: Assessing the impact of obesity on socioemotional skills during childhood in Chile	5
Child health inequality in Sub-Saharan Africa	5
How do basic income for elderly affect health of self-employed?	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
Exposure to wildfires and health outcomes of vulnerable people: Evidence from US data	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
Editorial Board	5
In the eye of the storm. Long-term impact of the Covid-19 pandemic on healthcare utilization in Lombardy	5
Daylight duration and time allocation of children and adolescents	5
Education and COVID-19 excess mortality	5
Growing up in a growing economy. Reassessing changes in biological living standards in Portugal during the twentieth century	5
Birth order and children’s health and learning outcomes in India	4
The full distribution of adult height in Poland: Cohorts born between 1920 and 1996. The biological cost of the economic transition	4
The health consequences of returning to work after retirement: Evidence from a Japanese longitudinal survey	4
The relationship between early-life conditions in the home country and adult outcomes among child immigrants in the United States	4
The impact of new energy demonstration city policy on the mental health of middle-aged and older adults	4
On a tendency in health economics to dwell on income inequality and underestimate social stress	4
Corrigendum to “The impact of Long-term Care Insurance on household income inequality: Evidence from China” [Econ. Hum. Biol. 59 (2025) 101519]	4
When the thermometer rises, the scales tip: Extreme temperature exposure and obesity	4
Equity in use and financing of assisted reproductive technologies: Does income matter?	4
Close encounters during a pandemic: Social habits and inter-generational links in the first two waves of COVID-19	4
Effectiveness of social distancing interventions in containing COVID-19 incidence: International evidence using Kalman filter	4
Does becoming an informal caregiver make your health worse? A longitudinal analysis across Europe	4
Global pain levels before and during the COVID-19 pandemic	4
Short men in poor lands: The agrarian workers from southwestern Spain in anthropometric perspective	4
Mother’s age at marriage and gender-differential in child schooling: Evidence from Pakistan	4
Hypertension effects of the COVID-19 lockdowns: Evidence from a repeated cross-sectional survey in Peru	4
Cash transfers and mental health in Egypt	4
Rational self-medication	4
Editorial Board	4
Mental health effects of social distancing in Switzerland	4
Mothers’ caregiving during COVID: The impact of marital property laws on women’s labor force status	4
Genetic endowments for social capital: An investigation accounting for genetic nurturing effects	4
Beyond the biological prime: Deciphering the link between child survival and maternal age in India	4
Birth weight and school performance	4
Race, immunity, and lifespan: Unraveling the effect of early-life exposure to malaria risk on lifespan	4
Gender differences in the effect of teleworking on job loss during the COVID-19 pandemic in Spain	4
Mendelian randomization analysis of the causal impact of body mass index and waist-hip ratio on rates of hospital admission	4
Surviving the Deluge: British servicemen in World War I	4
How important is girls’ ‘Biological Head Start’ in explaining gender differences in education and the labour market?	3
Height and standard of living in Puerto Rico from the Spanish enlightenment to annexation by the United States, 1770–1924	3
The impact of civil conflict on child health: Evidence from Colombia	3
Migrant well-being in Australia: Does locus of control matter?	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
Free to die: Economic freedoms and influenza mortality	3
The impact of overweight and obesity on unemployment duration among young American workers	3
Editorial Board	3
Intergenerational transmission of fertility in Spain among cohorts born during the first half of twentieth century	3
The effects of physical activity prescription on mental health: Evidence from primary care	3
The impact of lockdowns during the COVID-19 pandemic on fertility intentions	3
Economic costs of distancing policy interventions	3
Family poverty and adolescents’ cognitive and noncognitive outcomes: Evidence from China	3
Smoking to your kids gain? Childhood exposure to parental smoking and obesity	3
Genetic nurture in educational attainment	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
Editorial Board	3

Power to choose? Examining the link between contraceptive use decision and domestic violence	3
Impacts of a minimum pricing policy on high fat, sugar and sodium (HFSS) foods: Environmental, dietary and welfare analysis	3
Trade liberalization and nutrition transition: Evidence from China	3
Height and political activism in rural Aragón (Spain) during the 20th century. A new perspective using individual-level data	3
The intergenerational association of epigenetic modifications between mothers and offspring, from birth to adolescence	3
Invisible killer under the blue sky：Ozone pollution and infant mortality in China	3
State-led regional development strategy and multidimensional health poverty of the residents: Evidence from the China’s great western development program	3
Maternal employment and childhood obesity in Russia	3
Second generation effects of an experimental conditional cash transfer program on early childhood human capital in Nicaragua	3
Seasonal patterns in newborns’ health: Quantifying the roles of climate, communicable disease, economic and social factors	3
Lockdown strictness and mental health effects among older populations in Europe	3
Spillover effects of retirement: Does health vulnerability matter?	3
Is inconsistent reporting of self-assessed health persistent and systematic? Evidence from the UKHLS	3
Expensive famine: Early hunger experience and diabetes treatment burden	3
The (birthweight) gains from trade: Chinese imports and infant health in Sub-Saharan Africa	3
Are austerity measures really distressing? Evidence from Italy	3
Family size and vaccination among older individuals: The case of COVID-19 vaccine	3
Maternal mortality, tuberculosis and social deprivation in Madrid during the second and third decades of the 20th century	3
Editorial Board	2
Assessing the effectiveness of international government responses to the COVID-19 pandemic	2
Assessing the effectiveness of mandatory outdoor mask policy: The natural experiment of Campania	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
The long-run and intergenerational impact of early exposure to the Great Chinese Famine of 1959–61 on mental health	2
Discrimination backfires? Minority ethnic disparities in vaccine hesitancy	2
Height self-selection of internal migrants in Italy in the second half of the twentieth century	2
Response to Douglas A. Wolf comment on “Treatment design, health outcomes, and demographic categories in the literature on minimum wages and health”	2
The effect of paid parental leave on breastfeeding, parental health and behavior	2
Exposure to Islamophobia: The impacts of an increased risk of bullying victimization on human capital	2
Internet use and physical and mental health in old age during the COVID-19 pandemic: Evidence from partners in SHARE	2
In utero and childhood exposure to alcohol and old age mortality: Evidence from the temperance movement in the US	2
Direct and crowding-out effects of a Hepatitis B vaccination campaign	2
The effect of combat exposure on sexually transmitted diseases	2
Diverging destinies: How children are faring under demographic transition	2
Fiscal externalities and underinvestment in early-life human capital: Optimal policy instruments for a developing country	2
Immigration policy shocks and infant health	2
School starting age and nutritional outcomes: Evidence from Brazil	2
Economic freedom and gender health gap in the E.U.	2
The effect of hurricanes on mental health over the long term	2
Labour market implications of thyroid dysfunctions	2
Did the Finnish depression of the early 1990s have a silver lining? The effect of unemployment on long-term physical activity	2
Editorial Board	2
Occupational differences in the effects of retirement on hospitalizations for mental illness among female workers: Evidence from administrative data in China	2
The reliability of adult self-reported height: The role of interviewers	2
Can nudging overcome procrastinating on preventive health investments?	2
Childhood circumstances, social mobility and the obesity transition: Evidence from South Africa	2
Impact of health insurance expansion on patients' financial burden and family well-being in South Korea	2
Studying informal care during the pandemic: mental health, gender and job status	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
The impact of individuals’ preventive behaviours on health and healthcare utilisation	2
High temperatures and traffic accident crimes: Evidence from more than 470,000 offenses in China	2
The effect of pharmaceutical innovation on longevity: Evidence from the U.S. and 26 high-income countries	2
COVID-19 transmission in a resource dependent community with heterogeneous populations: An agent-based modeling approach	2
Association of cigarette smoking with changes in macroeconomic conditions	2
Real wages around the world: Insights from linear programming and accounting for climate differences	2
Childhood obesity, is fast food exposure a factor?	2
How did the European Marriage Pattern persist? Social versus familial inheritance: England and Quebec, 1650–1850	2
The illness trap: The impact of disability benefits on willingness to receive HCV treatment	2
Sleep hours fall as income rises: Macro and micro evidence on sleep inequality around the world	2
Health inequality and health insurance coverage: The United States and China compared	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 effect of cash transfers on maternal health seeking: Evidence from Ecuador	2
An investigation of body mass distributional changes in Australia, 1995–2017/18	2
No “honeymoon phase”: whose health benefits from retirement and when	2
Religiosity, attitudes toward science, and public health: Evidence from Finland	2