Economics & Human Biology

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.)
ArticleCitations
Health insurance, labor market shocks, and mental health during the first year of the COVID-19 crisis84
COVID-19, deaths at home and end-of-life cancer care37
Long-term exposure to ambient PM2.5 and population health: evidence from linked census data35
The challenge of estimating the direct and indirect effects of COVID-19 interventions – Toward an integrated economic and epidemiological approach35
Cognitive or non-cognitive? The effect of maternal dominance on adolescent human capital: Evidence from adolescents' educational decisions30
The demand for a COVID-19 vaccine24
Does searching online for vaccination information affect vaccination coverage? Evidence from Sub-Saharan African countries22
Vulnerability and COVID-19 infection rates: A changing relationship during the first year of the pandemic21
In and out of unemployment—Labour market transitions and the role of testosterone20
The impact of the State Innovation Models Initiative on population health20
People versus machines: The impact of being in an automatable job on Australian worker’s mental health and life satisfaction17
People inflows as a pandemic trigger: Evidence from a quasi-experimental study17
The mitigating effect of masks on the spread of Covid-1916
The sorting effect in healthcare access: Those left behind16
The causal impact of fetal exposure to PM2.5 on birth outcomes: Evidence from rural China16
The effect of “smoky” coal bans on chronic lung disease among older people in Ireland16
Convincing the “Herd” of immunity: Lessons from smallpox vaccination in 19th century Germany15
Decoupling genetics from attainments: The role of social environments15
Social inequalities in adult mortality across Europe (18th-21st centuries): A critical analysis of theories and evidence15
Health welfare in the digital era: Exploring the impact of digital trade on residents' health15
The fattening speed: Understanding the impact of internet speed on obesity, and the mediating role of sedentary behaviour14
A copula-based approach for creating an index of micronutrient intakes at household level in Pakistan14
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 Argentina14
Predicting depression in old age: Combining life course data with machine learning14
Fertility and immigration: Do immigrant mothers hand down their fertility pattern to the next generation? Evidence from Norway13
Secular change in heights of rural adults in west-central poland between 1986 and 2016: The transition from pre- to post-communism13
Wrong place, wrong time: The long-run effects of in-utero exposure to malaria on educational attainment13
The long-run effects of adolescent athletic participation on women’s health12
International travel in times of the COVID-19 pandemic: The case of German school breaks12
Having exams during Ramadan: The case of Indonesia12
Early socioeconomic status, social mobility and cognitive trajectories in later life: A life course perspective12
Heterogeneity in disease resistance and the impact of antibiotics in the US12
Intergenerational coresidence and the Covid-19 pandemic in the United States12
Obesity And Cash Rewards11
Severe prenatal shocks and adolescent health: Evidence from the Dutch Hunger Winter11
Disease and fertility: Evidence from the 1918–19 influenza pandemic in Sweden11
Educational burden reduction, educational inequality, and enrollment pressure: Evidence from China11
The effects of social capital deprivation for wellbeing: Evidence from the Covid-19 pandemic11
Effects of passive smoking on prenatal and infant development: Lessons from the past11
Obesity inequality and well-being in Germany10
Stunting and wasting in a growing economy: biological living standards in Portugal during the twentieth century10
Workplace autonomy and mental health10
Deforestation and child health in Cambodia10
The socioeconomic gradient in child health and noncognitive skills: Evidence from the Czech Republic10
Parental gender preferences over three centuries: Evidence from Argentina10
The impact of informal and formal care disruption on older adults’ psychological distress during the COVID-19 pandemic in UK9
Menopause as a regulatory device for matching the demand for children with its supply: A hypothesis9
Born to be wild: Second-to-fourth digit length ratio and risk preferences9
State dependence in immunization and the role of discouragement9
Soda expansion in the tropics: The effect on obesity rates among women without piped water at home9
Income insecurity and mental health in pandemic times9
Living standards in settler South Africa, 1865–19209
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-analysis8
De-normalizing smoking in urban areas: Public smoking bans and smoking prevalence8
The association between male height and lifespan in rural Spain, birth cohorts 1835-19398
Inequality, low-intensity immigration and human capital formation in the regions of Chile, 1820-19398
The geography of healthcare: Mapping patient flow and medical resource allocation in China8
Paid family leave and parental investments in infant health: Evidence from California8
Assessing the impact of fostering on children’s outcomes in Niger8
Exploring the hidden impact of the Covid-19 pandemic: The role of urbanization8
Does retirement affect secondary preventive care use? Evidence from breast cancer screening8
The intergenerational legacy of the 1959–1961 Great Chinese Famine on children’s cognitive development7
Old age takes its toll: Long-run projections of health-related public expenditure in Luxembourg7
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 program7
Digital transformation: The role of computer use in employee health7
The effects of taxation on the individual consumption of sugar-sweetened beverages7
Sweet or not: Using information and cognitive dissonance to nudge children toward healthier food choices7
The “Quiet Revolution” and the cesarean section in the United States6
The origins of cognitive skills and non-cognitive skills: The long-term effect of in-utero rainfall shocks in India6
As if it weren’t hard enough already: Breaking down hiring discrimination following burnout6
Depression and labor supply: Evidence from the Netherlands6
Employer-sponsored health insurance and labor market outcomes for men in same-sex couples: Evidence from the advent of pre-exposure prophylaxis6
Parental economic insecurity and child health6
Auspicious years, the birth of girls, and their birth outcomes6
Consequences of teenage childbearing on child health6
Unconditional cash transfers, health and savings6
Are stunted child – overweight mother pairs a real defined entity or a statistical artifact?6
Editorial Board6
Employee well-being in the digital age: Assessing the impacts of a smartphone application in the workplace5
Temperature exposure and sleep duration: Evidence from time use surveys5
Influence of poverty concerns on demand for healthier processed foods: A field experiment in Mexico City5
From pandemic to endemic: Spatial-temporal patterns of influenza-like illness incidence in a Swiss canton, 1918–19245
Time preference and nutrition label use: Evidence from China5
Adolescent girls’ empowerment policy, health awareness, and decision-making: Evidence from the SABLA program in India5
Child health inequality in Sub-Saharan Africa5
The impact of a malaria elimination initiative on school outcomes: Evidence from Southern Mozambique5
Economic development, intergenerational mobility, and health in South Korea5
Health, income, and the preston curve: A long view5
Effects of welfare reform on household food insecurity across generations5
Trust predicts compliance with COVID-19 containment policies: Evidence from ten countries using big data5
Too unwell to trust? The effect of mental health on social trust in Europe5
The impacts of the Free Semester program on students’ exam nervousness5
Active leisure, passive leisure and health5
The impact of past pandemics on economic and gender inequalities5
How do basic income for elderly affect health of self-employed?4
Daylight duration and time allocation of children and adolescents4
Is household shock a boon or bane to the utilisation of preventive healthcare for children? Evidence from Uganda4
Bodyweight and human capital development: Assessing the impact of obesity on socioemotional skills during childhood in Chile4
Editorial Board4
Rational self-medication4
Facing an unfortunate trade-off: policy responses, lessons and spill-overs during the COVID-19 pandemic4
The “Long-arm” of chronic conditions in childhood: Evidence from Canada using linked survey-administrative data4
Long-term effects of job loss on male health: BMI and health behaviors4
Elections have (health) consequences: Depression, anxiety, and the 2020 presidential election4
Empowering Women, Enhancing Diets: The Impact of Women’s Bargaining Power on Dietary Quality in Urban China4
Surviving the Deluge: British servicemen in World War I4
The gender wage gap across life: Effects of genetic predisposition towards higher educational attainment4
Editorial Board4
In the eye of the storm. Long-term impact of the Covid-19 pandemic on healthcare utilization in Lombardy4
Exposure to wildfires and health outcomes of vulnerable people: Evidence from US data4
Education and COVID-19 excess mortality4
Pain trends and pain growth disparities, 2009–20214
Shattered ground, shaken minds: Mental health consequences of earthquakes4
Mendelian randomization analysis of the causal impact of body mass index and waist-hip ratio on rates of hospital admission4
Effects of large gatherings on the COVID-19 epidemic: Evidence from professional and college sports4
Birth Order and Children’s Health and Learning Outcomes in India4
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