OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Economics & Human Biology is 4. 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 2021-06-01 to 2025-06-01.)

Article	Citations
Health insurance, labor market shocks, and mental health during the first year of the COVID-19 crisis	84
COVID-19, deaths at home and end-of-life cancer care	37
Long-term exposure to ambient PM2.5 and population health: evidence from linked census data	35
The challenge of estimating the direct and indirect effects of COVID-19 interventions – Toward an integrated economic and epidemiological approach	35
Cognitive or non-cognitive? The effect of maternal dominance on adolescent human capital: Evidence from adolescents' educational decisions	30
The demand for a COVID-19 vaccine	24
Does searching online for vaccination information affect vaccination coverage? Evidence from Sub-Saharan African countries	22
Vulnerability and COVID-19 infection rates: A changing relationship during the first year of the pandemic	21
In and out of unemployment—Labour market transitions and the role of testosterone	20
The impact of the State Innovation Models Initiative on population health	20
People versus machines: The impact of being in an automatable job on Australian worker’s mental health and life satisfaction	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	16
The sorting effect in healthcare access: Those left behind	16
The causal impact of fetal exposure to PM2.5 on birth outcomes: Evidence from rural China	16
The effect of “smoky” coal bans on chronic lung disease among older people in Ireland	16
Convincing the “Herd” of immunity: Lessons from smallpox vaccination in 19th century Germany	15
Decoupling genetics from attainments: The role of social environments	15
Social inequalities in adult mortality across Europe (18th-21st centuries): A critical analysis of theories and evidence	15
Health welfare in the digital era: Exploring the impact of digital trade on residents' health	15
The fattening speed: Understanding the impact of internet speed on obesity, and the mediating role of sedentary behaviour	14
A copula-based approach for creating an index of micronutrient intakes at household level in Pakistan	14
War in Ukraine – Changing the Polish paediatric population as a consequence of forced migration (a preliminary study)	14
Valuing mortality attributable to present and future temperature extremes in Argentina	14
Predicting depression in old age: Combining life course data with machine learning	14

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
Wrong place, wrong time: The long-run effects of in-utero exposure to malaria on educational attainment	13
The long-run effects of adolescent athletic participation on women’s health	12
International travel in times of the COVID-19 pandemic: The case of German school breaks	12
Having exams during Ramadan: The case of Indonesia	12
Early socioeconomic status, social mobility and cognitive trajectories in later life: A life course perspective	12
Heterogeneity in disease resistance and the impact of antibiotics in the US	12
Intergenerational coresidence and the Covid-19 pandemic in the United States	12
Obesity And Cash Rewards	11
Severe prenatal shocks and adolescent health: Evidence from the Dutch Hunger Winter	11
Disease and fertility: Evidence from the 1918–19 influenza pandemic in Sweden	11
Educational burden reduction, educational inequality, and enrollment pressure: Evidence from China	11
The effects of social capital deprivation for wellbeing: Evidence from the Covid-19 pandemic	11
Effects of passive smoking on prenatal and infant development: Lessons from the past	11
Obesity inequality and well-being in Germany	10
Stunting and wasting in a growing economy: biological living standards in Portugal during the twentieth century	10
Workplace autonomy and mental health	10
Deforestation and child health in Cambodia	10
The socioeconomic gradient in child health and noncognitive skills: Evidence from the Czech Republic	10
Parental gender preferences over three centuries: Evidence from Argentina	10
The impact of informal and formal care disruption on older adults’ psychological distress during the COVID-19 pandemic in UK	9
Menopause as a regulatory device for matching the demand for children with its supply: A hypothesis	9
Born to be wild: Second-to-fourth digit length ratio and risk preferences	9
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
Income insecurity and mental health in pandemic times	9
Living standards in settler South Africa, 1865–1920	9
A comment on “Treatment design, health outcomes, and demographic categories in the literature on minimum wages and health.”	9
The height premium: A systematic review and meta-analysis	8
De-normalizing smoking in urban areas: Public smoking bans and smoking prevalence	8
The association between male height and lifespan in rural Spain, birth cohorts 1835-1939	8
Inequality, low-intensity immigration and human capital formation in the regions of Chile, 1820-1939	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
Assessing the impact of fostering on children’s outcomes in Niger	8
Exploring the hidden impact of the Covid-19 pandemic: The role of urbanization	8
Does retirement affect secondary preventive care use? Evidence from breast cancer screening	8
The intergenerational legacy of the 1959–1961 Great Chinese Famine on children’s cognitive development	7
Old age takes its toll: Long-run projections of health-related public expenditure in Luxembourg	7
Explaining adverse cholesterol levels and distinct gender patterns in an Indonesian population compared with the U.S.	7
Gender inequality in nutrition intake: Evidence from a large assistance program	7
Digital transformation: The role of computer use in employee health	7
The effects of taxation on the individual consumption of sugar-sweetened beverages	7
Sweet or not: Using information and cognitive dissonance to nudge children toward healthier food choices	7
The “Quiet Revolution” and the cesarean section in the United States	6
The origins of cognitive skills and non-cognitive skills: The long-term effect of in-utero rainfall shocks in India	6
As if it weren’t hard enough already: Breaking down hiring discrimination following burnout	6
Depression and labor supply: Evidence from the Netherlands	6
Employer-sponsored health insurance and labor market outcomes for men in same-sex couples: Evidence from the advent of pre-exposure prophylaxis	6

Parental economic insecurity and child health	6
Auspicious years, the birth of girls, and their birth outcomes	6
Consequences of teenage childbearing on child health	6
Unconditional cash transfers, health and savings	6
Are stunted child – overweight mother pairs a real defined entity or a statistical artifact?	6
Editorial Board	6
Employee well-being in the digital age: Assessing the impacts of a smartphone application in the workplace	5
Temperature exposure and sleep duration: Evidence from time use surveys	5
Influence of poverty concerns on demand for healthier processed foods: A field experiment in Mexico City	5
From pandemic to endemic: Spatial-temporal patterns of influenza-like illness incidence in a Swiss canton, 1918–1924	5
Time preference and nutrition label use: Evidence from China	5
Adolescent girls’ empowerment policy, health awareness, and decision-making: Evidence from the SABLA program in India	5
Child health inequality in Sub-Saharan Africa	5
The impact of a malaria elimination initiative on school outcomes: Evidence from Southern Mozambique	5
Economic development, intergenerational mobility, and health in South Korea	5
Health, income, and the preston curve: A long view	5
Effects of welfare reform on household food insecurity across generations	5
Trust predicts compliance with COVID-19 containment policies: Evidence from ten countries using big data	5
Too unwell to trust? The effect of mental health on social trust in Europe	5
The impacts of the Free Semester program on students’ exam nervousness	5
Active leisure, passive leisure and health	5
The impact of past pandemics on economic and gender inequalities	5
How do basic income for elderly affect health of self-employed?	4
Daylight duration and time allocation of children and adolescents	4
Is household shock a boon or bane to the utilisation of preventive healthcare for children? Evidence from Uganda	4
Bodyweight and human capital development: Assessing the impact of obesity on socioemotional skills during childhood in Chile	4
Editorial Board	4
Rational self-medication	4
Facing an unfortunate trade-off: policy responses, lessons and spill-overs during the COVID-19 pandemic	4
The “Long-arm” of chronic conditions in childhood: Evidence from Canada using linked survey-administrative data	4
Long-term effects of job loss on male health: BMI and health behaviors	4
Elections have (health) consequences: Depression, anxiety, and the 2020 presidential election	4
Empowering Women, Enhancing Diets: The Impact of Women’s Bargaining Power on Dietary Quality in Urban China	4
Surviving the Deluge: British servicemen in World War I	4
The gender wage gap across life: Effects of genetic predisposition towards higher educational attainment	4
Editorial Board	4
In the eye of the storm. Long-term impact of the Covid-19 pandemic on healthcare utilization in Lombardy	4
Exposure to wildfires and health outcomes of vulnerable people: Evidence from US data	4
Education and COVID-19 excess mortality	4
Pain trends and pain growth disparities, 2009–2021	4
Shattered ground, shaken minds: Mental health consequences of earthquakes	4
Mendelian randomization analysis of the causal impact of body mass index and waist-hip ratio on rates of hospital admission	4
Effects of large gatherings on the COVID-19 epidemic: Evidence from professional and college sports	4
Birth Order and Children’s Health and Learning Outcomes in India	4