OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Economics & Human Biology is 6. 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 2020-11-01 to 2024-11-01.)

Article	Citations
Fathers matter: Intrahousehold responsibilities and children's wellbeing during the COVID-19 lockdown in Italy	70
The great crime recovery: Crimes against women during, and after, the COVID-19 lockdown in Mexico	48
The psychological burden of the COVID-19 pandemic severity	47
Intergenerational residence patterns and Covid-19 fatalities in the EU and the US*	32
Lockdown strictness and mental health effects among older populations in Europe	28
Unemployment and sleep: evidence from the United States and Europe	28
Armed conflict and birth weight	28
Does better education mitigate risky health behavior? A mendelian randomization study	24
Childhood stunting and cognitive effects of water and sanitation in Indonesia	23
Disease and fertility: Evidence from the 1918–19 influenza pandemic in Sweden	23
Impact of a sweetened beverage tax on beverage prices in Seattle, WA	22
Effects of large gatherings on the COVID-19 epidemic: Evidence from professional and college sports	21
Social media use and emotional and behavioural outcomes in adolescence: Evidence from British longitudinal data	20
The impact of the Philadelphia beverage tax on employment: A synthetic control analysis	19
Is owning your home good for your health? Evidence from exogenous variations in subsidies in England	18
The effect of working hours on health	18
The local and global mental health effects of the Covid-19 pandemic	18
The impact of widowhood on wellbeing, health, and care use: A longitudinal analysis across Europe	17
Effectiveness of social distancing interventions in containing COVID-19 incidence: International evidence using Kalman filter	17
Determinants of bicycle commuting and the effect of bicycle infrastructure investment in London: Evidence from UK census microdata	16
Insights on the implications of COVID-19 mitigation measures for mental health	16
Impacts of boarding on primary school students’ mental health outcomes – Instrumental-Variable evidence from rural northwestern China	15
The effect of bereavement on cognitive functioning among elderly people: Evidence from Australia	15
The New school food standards and nutrition of school children: Direct and Indirect Effect Analysis	15
Early adoption of non-pharmaceutical interventions and COVID-19 mortality	15

Vaccination rates and COVID outcomes across U.S. states	14
Early warning of vulnerable counties in a pandemic using socio-economic variables	13
The impact of past pandemics on economic and gender inequalities	13
The association between male height and lifespan in rural Spain, birth cohorts 1835-1939	13
Black-white disparities during an epidemic: Life expectancy and lifespan disparity in the US, 1980–2000	13
Leisure-time physical activity is associated with socio-economic status beyond income – Cross-sectional survey of the Northern Finland Birth Cohort 1966 study	13
The effect of retirement on health biomarkers	13
Did Covid-19 hit harder in peripheral areas? The case of Italian municipalities	12
Proximity to SNAP-authorized retailers and child maltreatment reports	12
Physical mobility under stay-at-home orders: A comparative analysis of movement restrictions between the U.S. and Europe	12
Maternal stress during pregnancy and early childhood development	12
Going beyond the mean in examining relationships of adolescent non-cognitive skills with health-related quality of life and biomarkers in later-life	12
Spousal bereavement and the cognitive health of older adults in the US: New insights on channels, single items, and subjective evidence	11
Air pollution and infant mortality: Evidence from China	11
The importance of workplace accommodation for cancer survivors – The role of flexible work schedules and psychological help in returning to work	11
Early marriage and maternal health care utilisation: Evidence from sub-Saharan Africa	11
Time spent exercising and obesity: An application of Lewbel’s instrumental variables method	11
Digital transformation: The role of computer use in employee health	11
The effect of pharmaceutical innovation on longevity: Evidence from the U.S. and 26 high-income countries	11
Farm fatalities in Northern Ireland agriculture: What fifty years of data tell us	10
Political violence, adverse shocks and child malnutrition: Empirical evidence from Andhra Pradesh, India	10
Early-life exposure to parental mental distress and adulthood depression among middle-aged and elderly Chinese	10
Offspring migration and nutritional status of left-behind older adults in rural China	10
Maternal education and infant health gradient: New answers to old questions	10
Visiting parents in times of COVID-19: The impact of parent-adult child contacts on the psychological health of the elderly	10
Pain trends and pain growth disparities, 2009–2021	10
The effect of height on earnings: Is stature just a proxy for cognitive and non-cognitive skills?	10
Socioeconomic inequalities in obesity in Brazil	10
Estimating the causal effect of liability to disease on healthcare costs using Mendelian Randomization	10
Health, income, and the preston curve: A long view	10
The impact of lockdowns during the COVID-19 pandemic on fertility intentions	10
The effect of parental smoking on children’s cognitive and non-cognitive skills	9
A bitter epidemic: The impact of the 1918 influenza on sugar production in Java	9
Political violence and child health: Results from Zimbabwe	9
The impact of civil conflict on child health: Evidence from Colombia	9
As if it weren’t hard enough already: Breaking down hiring discrimination following burnout	9
Mass gathering events and the spread of infectious diseases: Evidence from the early growth phase of COVID-19	9
The effect of income support programs on job search, workplace mobility and COVID-19: International evidence	9
Recreational marijuana laws and junk food consumption	9
The reliability of adult self-reported height: The role of interviewers	8
Disparities in COVID-19 mortality by county racial composition and the role of spring social distancing measures	8
The effect of lockdowns and infection rates on supermarket sales	8
International travel in times of the COVID-19 pandemic: The case of German school breaks	8
Regional differences in diabetes across Europe – regression and causal forest analyses	8
Productivity, obesity, and human capital: Panel data evidence	8
Is the intergenerational transmission of overweight ‘gender assortative’?	8
Early childhood stunting and later life outcomes: A longitudinal analysis	8
Too unwell to trust? The effect of mental health on social trust in Europe	8
Prenatal economic shocks and birth outcomes in UK cohort data	8
People versus machines: The impact of being in an automatable job on Australian worker’s mental health and life satisfaction	8

Treatment design, health outcomes, and demographic categories in the literature on minimum wages and health	8
Tobacco taxes and illicit cigarette trade in Colombia	8
Active leisure, passive leisure and health	8
The Influence of Household Refrigerator Ownership on Diets in Vietnam	8
Stunting, double orphanhood and unequal access to public services in democratic South Africa	7
The rise in extreme mental distress among LGBT people during Trump’s rise and presidency	7
Death, demography and the denominator: Age-adjusted Influenza-18 mortality in Ireland	7
Mendelian randomization analysis of the causal impact of body mass index and waist-hip ratio on rates of hospital admission	7
Effects of welfare reform on household food insecurity across generations	7
Decomposing consumer and producer effects on sugar from beverage purchases after a sugar-based tax on beverages in South Africa	7
Can electronic prescribing mandates reduce opioid-related overdoses?	7
Inequality, low-intensity immigration and human capital formation in the regions of Chile, 1820-1939	7
Elections have (health) consequences: Depression, anxiety, and the 2020 presidential election	7
Deforestation and infant mortality: Evidence from Indonesia	7
Human papillomavirus vaccine and risky sexual behavior: Regression discontinuity design evidence from Brazil	7
Price impact of taxes on sugary drinks in Brazil	7
Height and marital outcomes in the Netherlands, birth years 1841-1900	7
The value of COVID-19 tests in Latin America	7
The origins of cognitive skills and non-cognitive skills: The long-term effect of in-utero rainfall shocks in India	7
Modelling children's anthropometric status using Bayesian distributional regression merging socio-economic and remote sensed data from South Asia and sub-Saharan Africa	6
Population policy, family size and child malnutrition in Vietnam – Testing the trade-off between child quantity and quality from a child nutrition perspective	6
Childhood obesity, is fast food exposure a factor?	6
The association between fast-food consumption and job-related factors among Russian adults	6
Exploring the hidden impact of the Covid-19 pandemic: The role of urbanization	6
Taking the pulse of nations: A biometric measure of well-being	6
Do additional SNAP benefits matter for child weight?: Evidence from the 2009 benefit increase	6
When children have children: The effects of child marriages and teenage pregnancies on early childhood mortality in Bangladesh	6
Sunlight and Protection Against Influenza	6
Self-control and unhealthy body weight: The role of impulsivity and restraint	6
Do socioeconomic health gradients persist over time and beyond income? A distributional analysis using UK biomarker data	6
Depression and labor supply: Evidence from the Netherlands	6
What doesn’t kill her, will make her depressed	6
Can shorter mothers have taller children? Nutritional mobility, health equity and the intergenerational transmission of relative height	6
Effect of an abrupt change in sexual and reproductive health policy on teen birth rates in Ecuador, 2008–2017	6