OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Economics & Human Biology is 5. 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 2021-09-01 to 2025-09-01.)

Article	Citations
The challenge of estimating the direct and indirect effects of COVID-19 interventions – Toward an integrated economic and epidemiological approach	41
Cognitive or non-cognitive? The effect of maternal dominance on adolescent human capital: Evidence from adolescents' educational decisions	39
The demand for a COVID-19 vaccine	36
Does searching online for vaccination information affect vaccination coverage? Evidence from Sub-Saharan African countries	30
Vulnerability and COVID-19 infection rates: A changing relationship during the first year of the pandemic	27
COVID-19, deaths at home and end-of-life cancer care	24
Long-term exposure to ambient PM2.5 and population health: evidence from linked census data	21
In and out of unemployment—Labour market transitions and the role of testosterone	21
The causal impact of fetal exposure to PM2.5 on birth outcomes: Evidence from rural China	21
People inflows as a pandemic trigger: Evidence from a quasi-experimental study	20
Heterogeneous impacts of climate change on morbidity	19
Health insurance, labor market shocks, and mental health during the first year of the COVID-19 crisis	19
People versus machines: The impact of being in an automatable job on Australian worker’s mental health and life satisfaction	19
The effect of “smoky” coal bans on chronic lung disease among older people in Ireland	17
More Than a Ban on Smoking? Behavioural Spillovers of Smoking Bans in the Workplace	17
The mitigating effect of masks on the spread of Covid-19	17
The sorting effect in healthcare access: Those left behind	17
Health welfare in the digital era: Exploring the impact of digital trade on residents' health	16
Convincing the “Herd” of immunity: Lessons from smallpox vaccination in 19th century Germany	16
Social inequalities in adult mortality across Europe (18th-21st centuries): A critical analysis of theories and evidence	16
Decoupling genetics from attainments: The role of social environments	16
The fattening speed: Understanding the impact of internet speed on obesity, and the mediating role of sedentary behaviour	15
A copula-based approach for creating an index of micronutrient intakes at household level in Pakistan	15
Secular change in heights of rural adults in west-central poland between 1986 and 2016: The transition from pre- to post-communism	14
Wrong place, wrong time: The long-run effects of in-utero exposure to malaria on educational attainment	14

The long-run effects of adolescent athletic participation on women’s health	13
War in Ukraine – Changing the Polish paediatric population as a consequence of forced migration (a preliminary study)	13
Fertility and immigration: Do immigrant mothers hand down their fertility pattern to the next generation? Evidence from Norway	13
Having exams during Ramadan: The case of Indonesia	13
Valuing mortality attributable to present and future temperature extremes in Argentina	12
Intergenerational coresidence and the Covid-19 pandemic in the United States	12
Predicting depression in old age: Combining life course data with machine learning	12
Heterogeneity in disease resistance and the impact of antibiotics in the US	12
Obesity And Cash Rewards	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
International travel in times of the COVID-19 pandemic: The case of German school breaks	11
Early socioeconomic status, social mobility and cognitive trajectories in later life: A life course perspective	11
Obesity inequality and well-being in Germany	11
Severe prenatal shocks and adolescent health: Evidence from the Dutch Hunger Winter	11
Workplace autonomy and mental health	10
The impact of informal and formal care disruption on older adults’ psychological distress during the COVID-19 pandemic in UK	10
Living standards in settler South Africa, 1865–1920	10
Disease and fertility: Evidence from the 1918–19 influenza pandemic in Sweden	10
Income insecurity and mental health in pandemic times	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
A comment on “Treatment design, health outcomes, and demographic categories in the literature on minimum wages and health.”	10
Born to be wild: Second-to-fourth digit length ratio and risk preferences	9
State dependence in immunization and the role of discouragement	9
Deforestation and child health in Cambodia	9
Soda expansion in the tropics: The effect on obesity rates among women without piped water at home	9
Stunting and wasting in a growing economy: biological living standards in Portugal during the twentieth century	9
Assessing the impact of fostering on children’s outcomes in Niger	8
Digital transformation: The role of computer use in employee health	8
Inequality, low-intensity immigration and human capital formation in the regions of Chile, 1820-1939	8
De-normalizing smoking in urban areas: Public smoking bans and smoking prevalence	8
Exploring the hidden impact of the Covid-19 pandemic: The role of urbanization	8
The geography of healthcare: Mapping patient flow and medical resource allocation in China	8
The height premium: A systematic review and meta-analysis	8
Does retirement affect secondary preventive care use? Evidence from breast cancer screening	8
Explaining adverse cholesterol levels and distinct gender patterns in an Indonesian population compared with the U.S.	7
Sweet or not: Using information and cognitive dissonance to nudge children toward healthier food choices	7
The intergenerational legacy of the 1959–1961 Great Chinese Famine on children’s cognitive development	7
The effects of taxation on the individual consumption of sugar-sweetened beverages	7
The association between male height and lifespan in rural Spain, birth cohorts 1835-1939	7
Gender inequality in nutrition intake: Evidence from a large assistance program	7
Paid family leave and parental investments in infant health: Evidence from California	7
The “Quiet Revolution” and the cesarean section in the United States	6
Parental economic insecurity and child health	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
From pandemic to endemic: Spatial-temporal patterns of influenza-like illness incidence in a Swiss canton, 1918–1924	6
Employer-sponsored health insurance and labor market outcomes for men in same-sex couples: Evidence from the advent of pre-exposure prophylaxis	6
Are stunted child – overweight mother pairs a real defined entity or a statistical artifact?	6

Editorial Board	6
Adolescent girls’ empowerment policy, health awareness, and decision-making: Evidence from the SABLA program in India	6
Auspicious years, the birth of girls, and their birth outcomes	6
Unconditional cash transfers, health and savings	6
The origins of cognitive skills and non-cognitive skills: The long-term effect of in-utero rainfall shocks in India	6
Old age takes its toll: Long-run projections of health-related public expenditure in Luxembourg	6
Active leisure, passive leisure and health	6
Health, income, and the preston curve: A long view	5
Economic development, intergenerational mobility, and health in South Korea	5
Daylight duration and time allocation of children and adolescents	5
Education and COVID-19 excess mortality	5
Time preference and nutrition label use: Evidence from China	5
Child health inequality in Sub-Saharan Africa	5
Employee well-being in the digital age: Assessing the impacts of a smartphone application in the workplace	5
The impact of a malaria elimination initiative on school outcomes: Evidence from Southern Mozambique	5
Effects of welfare reform on household food insecurity across generations	5
Is household shock a boon or bane to the utilisation of preventive healthcare for children? Evidence from Uganda	5
How do basic income for elderly affect health of self-employed?	5
Exposure to wildfires and health outcomes of vulnerable people: Evidence from US data	5
The impact of past pandemics on economic and gender inequalities	5
The “Long-arm” of chronic conditions in childhood: Evidence from Canada using linked survey-administrative data	5
Influence of poverty concerns on demand for healthier processed foods: A field experiment in Mexico City	5
Trust predicts compliance with COVID-19 containment policies: Evidence from ten countries using big data	5
Long-term effects of job loss on male health: BMI and health behaviors	5
Temperature exposure and sleep duration: Evidence from time use surveys	5
In the eye of the storm. Long-term impact of the Covid-19 pandemic on healthcare utilization in Lombardy	5
The impacts of the Free Semester program on students’ exam nervousness	5