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 2020-03-01 to 2024-03-01.)
ArticleCitations
Fathers matter: Intrahousehold responsibilities and children's wellbeing during the COVID-19 lockdown in Italy56
Oakland’s sugar-sweetened beverage tax: Impacts on prices, purchases and consumption by adults and children47
The impact of Seattle’s Sweetened Beverage Tax on beverage prices and volume sold46
The psychological burden of the COVID-19 pandemic severity42
The great crime recovery: Crimes against women during, and after, the COVID-19 lockdown in Mexico36
Evaluating Saudi Arabia’s 50% carbonated drink excise tax: Changes in prices and volume sales33
Intergenerational residence patterns and Covid-19 fatalities in the EU and the US*32
Armed conflict and birth weight25
Unemployment and sleep: evidence from the United States and Europe25
Obesity and hiring discrimination24
The macroeconomic impacts of diet-related fiscal policy for NCD prevention: A systematic review23
Lockdown strictness and mental health effects among older populations in Europe22
An analysis of the stock market reaction to the announcements of the UK Soft Drinks Industry Levy21
Disease and fertility: Evidence from the 1918–19 influenza pandemic in Sweden20
Social class-specific secular trends in height among 19-year old Polish men: 6th national surveys from 1965 till 201019
Effects of large gatherings on the COVID-19 epidemic: Evidence from professional and college sports19
Impact of a sweetened beverage tax on beverage prices in Seattle, WA18
Childhood stunting and cognitive effects of water and sanitation in Indonesia17
Does better education mitigate risky health behavior? A mendelian randomization study17
Nutritional and socio-economic predictors of adult height in 152 world populations16
The impact of the Philadelphia beverage tax on employment: A synthetic control analysis16
Newborn health and the business cycle: The role of birth order16
Valuing pain using the subjective well-being method16
Insights on the implications of COVID-19 mitigation measures for mental health15
The impact of UK soft drinks industry levy on manufacturers’ domestic turnover15
The local and global mental health effects of the Covid-19 pandemic15
Early adoption of non-pharmaceutical interventions and COVID-19 mortality15
Impacts of boarding on primary school students’ mental health outcomes – Instrumental-Variable evidence from rural northwestern China14
How children's education affects caregiving: Evidence from parent’s last years of life14
The impact of widowhood on wellbeing, health, and care use: A longitudinal analysis across Europe13
Who drinks soda pop? Economic status and adult consumption of sugar-sweetened beverages13
Younger, dissatisfied, and unhealthy – Relative age in adolescence13
Do prices and purchases respond similarly to soft drink tax increases and cuts?13
The effect of working hours on health13
The effect of retirement on biomedical and behavioral risk factors for cardiovascular and metabolic disease13
Leisure-time physical activity is associated with socio-economic status beyond income – Cross-sectional survey of the Northern Finland Birth Cohort 1966 study12
The effect of local unemployment on health: A longitudinal study of Irish mothers 2001-201112
Social media use and emotional and behavioural outcomes in adolescence: Evidence from British longitudinal data12
Did Covid-19 hit harder in peripheral areas? The case of Italian municipalities11
The New school food standards and nutrition of school children: Direct and Indirect Effect Analysis11
The association between male height and lifespan in rural Spain, birth cohorts 1835-193911
Early warning of vulnerable counties in a pandemic using socio-economic variables11
Height shrinkage, health and mortality among older adults: Evidence from Indonesia11
Determinants of bicycle commuting and the effect of bicycle infrastructure investment in London: Evidence from UK census microdata11
Spousal bereavement and the cognitive health of older adults in the US: New insights on channels, single items, and subjective evidence11
Going beyond the mean in examining relationships of adolescent non-cognitive skills with health-related quality of life and biomarkers in later-life11
Is owning your home good for your health? Evidence from exogenous variations in subsidies in England11
Effectiveness of social distancing interventions in containing COVID-19 incidence: International evidence using Kalman filter11
Can the updated nutrition facts label decrease sugar-sweetened beverage consumption?11
The effect of bereavement on cognitive functioning among elderly people: Evidence from Australia11
The impact of past pandemics on economic and gender inequalities11
Digital transformation: The role of computer use in employee health10
Rainfall and child weight in Uganda10
Visiting parents in times of COVID-19: The impact of parent-adult child contacts on the psychological health of the elderly10
The impact of the Cook County, IL, Sweetened Beverage Tax on beverage prices10
Maternal education and infant health gradient: New answers to old questions10
The health and financial impacts of a sugary drink tax across different income groups in Canada10
The effect of retirement on health biomarkers10
Drudgery reduction, physical activity and energy requirements in rural livelihoods10
Farm fatalities in Northern Ireland agriculture: What fifty years of data tell us10
Catch-up growth in height and cognitive function: Why definitions matter10
Are only children in China more likely to be obese/overweight than their counterparts with siblings?10
Political violence and child health: Results from Zimbabwe9
Early-life exposure to parental mental distress and adulthood depression among middle-aged and elderly Chinese9
The effect of income support programs on job search, workplace mobility and COVID-19: International evidence9
Physical mobility under stay-at-home orders: A comparative analysis of movement restrictions between the U.S. and Europe9
Proximity to SNAP-authorized retailers and child maltreatment reports9
As if it weren’t hard enough already: Breaking down hiring discrimination following burnout9
The impact of civil conflict on child health: Evidence from Colombia9
Maternal stress during pregnancy and early childhood development9
A bitter epidemic: The impact of the 1918 influenza on sugar production in Java9
Political violence, adverse shocks and child malnutrition: Empirical evidence from Andhra Pradesh, India8
Beauty perks: Physical appearance, earnings, and fringe benefits8
Black-white disparities during an epidemic: Life expectancy and lifespan disparity in the US, 1980–20008
The importance of workplace accommodation for cancer survivors – The role of flexible work schedules and psychological help in returning to work8
Early marriage and maternal health care utilisation: Evidence from sub-Saharan Africa8
International travel in times of the COVID-19 pandemic: The case of German school breaks8
Regional inequalities in adiposity in England: distributional analysis of the contribution of individual-level characteristics and the small area obesogenic environment8
Recreational marijuana laws and junk food consumption8
Socioeconomic inequalities in obesity in Brazil8
Air pollution and infant mortality: Evidence from China8
Chronic kidney disease and household behaviors in Sri Lanka: Historical choices of drinking water and agrochemical use8
The effect of pharmaceutical innovation on longevity: Evidence from the U.S. and 26 high-income countries7
Is the intergenerational transmission of overweight ‘gender assortative’?7
The value of COVID-19 tests in Latin America7
Estimating the causal effect of liability to disease on healthcare costs using Mendelian Randomization7
Vaccination rates and COVID outcomes across U.S. states7
Time spent exercising and obesity: An application of Lewbel’s instrumental variables method7
Treatment design, health outcomes, and demographic categories in the literature on minimum wages and health7
Offspring migration and nutritional status of left-behind older adults in rural China7
Mass gathering events and the spread of infectious diseases: Evidence from the early growth phase of COVID-197
The effect of parental smoking on children’s cognitive and non-cognitive skills7
Disparities in COVID-19 mortality by county racial composition and the role of spring social distancing measures7
Active leisure, passive leisure and health7
Height and marital outcomes in the Netherlands, birth years 1841-19007
The impact of lockdowns during the COVID-19 pandemic on fertility intentions7
The effect of lockdowns and infection rates on supermarket sales7
Pain trends and pain growth disparities, 2009–20217
Price impact of taxes on sugary drinks in Brazil6
Height, marriage, and partner characteristics for women in low- and middle-income countries6
Regional differences in diabetes across Europe – regression and causal forest analyses6
The impact of BMI on mental health: Further evidence from genetic markers6
The reliability of adult self-reported height: The role of interviewers6
The origins of cognitive skills and non-cognitive skills: The long-term effect of in-utero rainfall shocks in India6
Sunlight and Protection Against Influenza6
Mendelian randomization analysis of the causal impact of body mass index and waist-hip ratio on rates of hospital admission6
Tobacco taxes and illicit cigarette trade in Colombia6
Modelling children's anthropometric status using Bayesian distributional regression merging socio-economic and remote sensed data from South Asia and sub-Saharan Africa6
The effects of weather shocks on early childhood development: Evidence from 25 years of tropical storms in Jamaica6
Economic development in Puerto Rico after US annexation: Anthropometric evidence6
What doesn’t kill her, will make her depressed6
The effect of height on earnings: Is stature just a proxy for cognitive and non-cognitive skills?6
Human papillomavirus vaccine and risky sexual behavior: Regression discontinuity design evidence from Brazil6
Inequality, low-intensity immigration and human capital formation in the regions of Chile, 1820-19396
Death, demography and the denominator: Age-adjusted Influenza-18 mortality in Ireland6
Effects of welfare reform on household food insecurity across generations6
Too unwell to trust? The effect of mental health on social trust in Europe6
Productivity, obesity, and human capital: Panel data evidence6
The Influence of Household Refrigerator Ownership on Diets in Vietnam6
Can shorter mothers have taller children? Nutritional mobility, health equity and the intergenerational transmission of relative height6
The rise in extreme mental distress among LGBT people during Trump’s rise and presidency6
Obesity and food away from home: What drives the socioeconomic gradient in excess body weight?5
Do socioeconomic health gradients persist over time and beyond income? A distributional analysis using UK biomarker data5
Early childhood stunting and later life outcomes: A longitudinal analysis5
Health, income, and the preston curve: A long view5
Prenatal economic shocks and birth outcomes in UK cohort data5
The effect of the economic collapse in Iceland on the probability of cardiovascular events5
The effect of implicit and explicit taxes on the purchasing of ‘high-in-calorie’ products: A randomized controlled trial5
The effect of type 2 diabetes diagnosis in the elderly5
Stunting, double orphanhood and unequal access to public services in democratic South Africa5
Do childhood infections affect labour market outcomes in adulthood and, if so, how?5
Refugee camps – A lasting legacy? Evidence on long-term health impact5
The effect of tobacco policies on youth physical activity5
People versus machines: The impact of being in an automatable job on Australian worker’s mental health and life satisfaction5
Decomposing consumer and producer effects on sugar from beverage purchases after a sugar-based tax on beverages in South Africa5
Parenthood and smoking5
Unequal excess mortality during the Spanish Flu pandemic in the Netherlands5
Is the public sweet on sugary beverages? Social desirability bias and sweetened beverage taxes5
When children have children: The effects of child marriages and teenage pregnancies on early childhood mortality in Bangladesh5
Deforestation and infant mortality: Evidence from Indonesia5
A dynamic microeconomic analysis of the impact of physical activity on cognition among older people4
Population policy, family size and child malnutrition in Vietnam – Testing the trade-off between child quantity and quality from a child nutrition perspective4
Consequences of teenage childbearing on child health4
Transitioning to an obese India: Demographic and structural determinants of the rapid rise in overweight incidence4
The association between fast-food consumption and job-related factors among Russian adults4
Filling the weight gap: Estimating body weight and BMI using height, chest and upper arm circumference of Swiss conscripts in the first half of the 20th century4
Can electronic prescribing mandates reduce opioid-related overdoses?4
Effects of a measles outbreak on vaccination uptake4
Do additional SNAP benefits matter for child weight?: Evidence from the 2009 benefit increase4
Noncommunicable disease outcomes and the effects of vertical and horizontal health aid4
Do employers discriminate against obese employees? Evidence from individuals who are simultaneously self-employed and working for an employer4
The long-run heterogeneous effects of a cholera pandemic on stature: Evidence from industrializing Japan4
Effects of parental public health insurance eligibility on parent and child health outcomes4
Depression and labor supply: Evidence from the Netherlands4
COVID-19 crisis management in Luxembourg: Insights from an epidemionomic approach4
Gender-role ideology and height preference in mate selection4
Does BMI predict the early spatial variation and intensity of Covid-19 in developing countries? Evidence from India4
Taking the pulse of nations: A biometric measure of well-being4
Birth weight, neonatal care, and infant mortality: Evidence from macrosomic babies3
Sex ratios and mental health: Evidence from China3
Obesity and bankruptcy: Evidence from US counties3
Does democracy make taller men? Cross-country European evidence3
Prenatal exposure to the German food crisis 1944–1948 and health after 65 years3
Childhood obesity, is fast food exposure a factor?3
Exploring the hidden impact of the Covid-19 pandemic: The role of urbanization3
The socioeconomic gradient in child health and noncognitive skills: Evidence from the Czech Republic3
Stunting, IQ, and final school attainment in the Cebu Longitudinal Health and Nutrition Survey birth cohort3
Bodyweight and human capital development: Assessing the impact of obesity on socioemotional skills during childhood in Chile3
The association of asthma and air pollution: Evidence from India3
A copula-based approach for creating an index of micronutrient intakes at household level in Pakistan3
The impact of early-life shocks on adult welfare in Brazil: Questions of measurement and timing3
Perinatal health among 1 million Chinese-Americans3
Can nudging overcome procrastinating on preventive health investments?3
Persistent Pandemics3
The effects of in-utero exposure to influenza on mental health and mortality risk throughout the life-course3
The biological standard of living in La Paz (Bolivia), 1880s–1920s: Persistent stagnation and inequality3
Infant feeding and post-weaning health: Evidence from turn-of-the-century London3
Self-control and unhealthy body weight: The role of impulsivity and restraint3
Social jobs and the returns to drinking3
Medicaid coverage and use of nicotine replacement treatment3
Home alone? Effect of weather-induced behaviour on spread of SARS-CoV-2 in Germany3
Parental economic insecurity and child health3
Population homeostasis in sub-Saharan Africa3
Vulnerability and COVID-19 infection rates: A changing relationship during the first year of the pandemic3
Parents labor supply and childhood obesity: Evidence from Scotland3
Desert locust swarms and child health3
Sweet or not: Using information and cognitive dissonance to nudge children toward healthier food choices3
No “honeymoon phase”: whose health benefits from retirement and when2
Influence of poverty concerns on demand for healthier processed foods: A field experiment in Mexico City2
The impact of menstruation hygiene management on work absenteeism of women in Burkina Faso2
From pandemic to endemic: Spatial-temporal patterns of influenza-like illness incidence in a Swiss canton, 1918–19242
Does retirement affect secondary preventive care use? Evidence from breast cancer screening2
The challenge of estimating the direct and indirect effects of COVID-19 interventions – Toward an integrated economic and epidemiological approach2
Opioid epidemics2
The impact of the State Innovation Models Initiative on population health2
Born to be wild: Second-to-fourth digit length ratio and risk preferences2
Are the costs of employer-sponsored health insurance passed on to workers at the individual level?2
New evidence on the impact of the Great Recession on health-compromising behaviours2
Impact of changes in relationship status on smoking behavior and body weight2
Transgenerational health effects of in utero exposure to economic hardship: Evidence from preindustrial Southern Norway2
Wrong place, wrong time: The long-run effects of in-utero exposure to malaria on educational attainment2
On a tendency in health economics to dwell on income inequality and underestimate social stress2
Drinking during downturn: New evidence from the housing market fluctuations in the United States during the Great Recession2
The full distribution of adult height in Poland: Cohorts born between 1920 and 1996. The biological cost of the economic transition2
Child health inequality in Sub-Saharan Africa2
Heterogeneity in place effects on health: The case of time preferences and adolescent obesity2
Does becoming an informal caregiver make your health worse? A longitudinal analysis across Europe2
The Brazilian Family Health Strategy and adult health: Evidence from individual and local data for metropolitan areas2
In and out of unemployment—Labour market transitions and the role of testosterone2
Competitiveness, gender and handedness2
Distributional Effects of Recent Health Insurance Expansions on Weight-Related Outcomes2
The long shadow of the Kargil War: The effect of early-life stress on education2
Conflicts and son preference: Micro-level evidence from 58 countries2
The relationship between abortion rates and economic fluctuations2
Effect of an abrupt change in sexual and reproductive health policy on teen birth rates in Ecuador, 2008–20172
The Indian Enigma revisited2
Elections have (health) consequences: Depression, anxiety, and the 2020 presidential election2
The intergenerational legacy of the 1959–1961 Great Chinese Famine on children’s cognitive development2
The impact of a malaria elimination initiative on school outcomes: Evidence from Southern Mozambique2
Air pollution and individual productivity: Evidence from the Ironman Triathlon results2
Diabetes, employment and behavioural risk factors in China: Marginal structural models versus fixed effects models2
Did the Finnish depression of the early 1990s have a silver lining? The effect of unemployment on long-term physical activity2
Aging out of the federal dependent coverage mandate and purchases of prescription drugs with high rates of misuse2
BMI mobility and obesity transitions among children in Ireland2
Is paternal height related to fertility outcomes? Evidence from the Netherlands during the secular growth trend2
Intergenerational health effects of Medicaid2
The demand for a COVID-19 vaccine2
The impact of informal and formal care disruption on older adults’ psychological distress during the COVID-19 pandemic in UK2
The business cycle, health behavior, and chronic disease: A study over Three decades2
Poverty and limited attention2
Fee equalization and appropriate health care2
Biomarkers, disability and health care demand2
Blessed are the first: The long-term effect of birth order on trust2
Having exams during Ramadan: The case of Indonesia2
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