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 2021-05-01 to 2025-05-01.)

Article	Citations
Health insurance, labor market shocks, and mental health during the first year of the COVID-19 crisis	83
COVID-19, deaths at home and end-of-life cancer care	53
The challenge of estimating the direct and indirect effects of COVID-19 interventions – Toward an integrated economic and epidemiological approach	52
Long-term exposure to ambient PM2.5 and population health: evidence from linked census data	35
Cognitive or non-cognitive? The effect of maternal dominance on adolescent human capital: Evidence from adolescents' educational decisions	34
The demand for a COVID-19 vaccine	33
The impact of the State Innovation Models Initiative on population health	31
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	23
People versus machines: The impact of being in an automatable job on Australian worker’s mental health and life satisfaction	20
People inflows as a pandemic trigger: Evidence from a quasi-experimental study	20
The causal impact of fetal exposure to PM2.5 on birth outcomes: Evidence from rural China	19
In and out of unemployment—Labour market transitions and the role of testosterone	18
The mitigating effect of masks on the spread of Covid-19	17
The sorting effect in healthcare access: Those left behind	17
Prenatal economic shocks and birth outcomes in UK cohort data	16
The effect of “smoky” coal bans on chronic lung disease among older people in Ireland	16
The effect of income support programs on job search, workplace mobility and COVID-19: International evidence	16
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
Convincing the “Herd” of immunity: Lessons from smallpox vaccination in 19th century Germany	15
Decoupling genetics from attainments: The role of social environments	15
The effect of parental smoking on children’s cognitive and non-cognitive skills	14
The fattening speed: Understanding the impact of internet speed on obesity, and the mediating role of sedentary behaviour	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
A copula-based approach for creating an index of micronutrient intakes at household level in Pakistan	14
Predicting depression in old age: Combining life course data with machine learning	14
Heterogeneity in disease resistance and the impact of antibiotics in the US	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
Secular change in heights of rural adults in west-central poland between 1986 and 2016: The transition from pre- to post-communism	13
The long-run effects of adolescent athletic participation on women’s health	13
Wrong place, wrong time: The long-run effects of in-utero exposure to malaria on educational attainment	13
International travel in times of the COVID-19 pandemic: The case of German school breaks	12
Intergenerational coresidence and the Covid-19 pandemic in the United States	12
Early socioeconomic status, social mobility and cognitive trajectories in later life: A life course perspective	12
Effect of an abrupt change in sexual and reproductive health policy on teen birth rates in Ecuador, 2008–2017	12
Fee equalization and appropriate health care	12
Workplace autonomy and mental health	11
Obesity inequality and well-being in Germany	11
Severe prenatal shocks and adolescent health: Evidence from the Dutch Hunger Winter	11
Effects of passive smoking on prenatal and infant development: Lessons from the past	11
Obesity And Cash Rewards	11
Disease and fertility: Evidence from the 1918–19 influenza pandemic in Sweden	11
Death, demography and the denominator: Age-adjusted Influenza-18 mortality in Ireland	11
The socioeconomic gradient in child health and noncognitive skills: Evidence from the Czech Republic	11
Leisure-time physical activity is associated with socio-economic status beyond income – Cross-sectional survey of the Northern Finland Birth Cohort 1966 study	11
The effects of social capital deprivation for wellbeing: Evidence from the Covid-19 pandemic	11
Educational burden reduction, educational inequality, and enrollment pressure: Evidence from China	11
Soda expansion in the tropics: The effect on obesity rates among women without piped water at home	10
Deforestation and child health in Cambodia	10
Inequality, low-intensity immigration and human capital formation in the regions of Chile, 1820-1939	10
Stunting and wasting in a growing economy: biological living standards in Portugal during the twentieth century	10
Parental gender preferences over three centuries: Evidence from Argentina	10
The geography of healthcare: Mapping patient flow and medical resource allocation in China	9
State dependence in immunization and the role of discouragement	9
Income insecurity and mental health in pandemic times	9
Living standards in settler South Africa, 1865–1920	9
Menopause as a regulatory device for matching the demand for children with its supply: A hypothesis	9
The impact of informal and formal care disruption on older adults’ psychological distress during the COVID-19 pandemic in UK	9
The height premium: A systematic review and meta-analysis	8
Assessing the impact of fostering on children’s outcomes in Niger	8
Paid family leave and parental investments in infant health: Evidence from California	8
A comment on “Treatment design, health outcomes, and demographic categories in the literature on minimum wages and health.”	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 association between male height and lifespan in rural Spain, birth cohorts 1835-1939	8
Born to be wild: Second-to-fourth digit length ratio and risk preferences	8
Does retirement affect secondary preventive care use? Evidence from breast cancer screening	8
Digital transformation: The role of computer use in employee health	8
Parental economic insecurity and child health	7
Old age takes its toll: Long-run projections of health-related public expenditure in Luxembourg	7
Sweet or not: Using information and cognitive dissonance to nudge children toward healthier food choices	7
The effects of taxation on the individual consumption of sugar-sweetened beverages	7

Consequences of teenage childbearing on child health	7
The intergenerational legacy of the 1959–1961 Great Chinese Famine on children’s cognitive development	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
Economic development, intergenerational mobility, and health in South Korea	6
Unconditional cash transfers, health and savings	6
Adolescent girls’ empowerment policy, health awareness, and decision-making: Evidence from the SABLA program in India	6
As if it weren’t hard enough already: Breaking down hiring discrimination following burnout	6
Employee well-being in the digital age: Assessing the impacts of a smartphone application in the workplace	6
Editorial Board	6
The “Quiet Revolution” and the cesarean section in the United States	6
Are stunted child – overweight mother pairs a real defined entity or a statistical artifact?	6
Active leisure, passive leisure and health	6
Child health inequality in Sub-Saharan Africa	6
The origins of cognitive skills and non-cognitive skills: The long-term effect of in-utero rainfall shocks in India	6
Employer-sponsored health insurance and labor market outcomes for men in same-sex couples: Evidence from the advent of pre-exposure prophylaxis	6
Depression and labor supply: Evidence from the Netherlands	6
Auspicious years, the birth of girls, and their birth outcomes	6
Trust predicts compliance with COVID-19 containment policies: Evidence from ten countries using big data	6
Too unwell to trust? The effect of mental health on social trust in Europe	5
Effects of welfare reform on household food insecurity across generations	5
From pandemic to endemic: Spatial-temporal patterns of influenza-like illness incidence in a Swiss canton, 1918–1924	5
Influence of poverty concerns on demand for healthier processed foods: A field experiment in Mexico City	5
The “Long-arm” of chronic conditions in childhood: Evidence from Canada using linked survey-administrative data	5
Temperature exposure and sleep duration: Evidence from time use surveys	5
Health, income, and the preston curve: A long view	5
Time preference and nutrition label use: Evidence from China	5
How do basic income for elderly affect health of self-employed?	5
The impact of past pandemics on economic and gender inequalities	5
The impact of a malaria elimination initiative on school outcomes: Evidence from Southern Mozambique	5
The impacts of the Free Semester program on students’ exam nervousness	5
Is household shock a boon or bane to the utilisation of preventive healthcare for children? Evidence from Uganda	5