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 2022-06-01 to 2026-06-01.)

Article	Citations
In and out of unemployment—Labour market transitions and the role of testosterone	58
People versus machines: The impact of being in an automatable job on Australian worker’s mental health and life satisfaction	30
Vulnerability and COVID-19 infection rates: A changing relationship during the first year of the pandemic	30
Health insurance, labor market shocks, and mental health during the first year of the COVID-19 crisis	24
Does searching online for vaccination information affect vaccination coverage? Evidence from Sub-Saharan African countries	24
COVID-19, deaths at home and end-of-life cancer care	23
Long-term exposure to ambient PM2.5 and population health: evidence from linked census data	22
Cognitive or non-cognitive? The effect of maternal dominance on adolescent human capital: Evidence from adolescents' educational decisions	21
The impact of obesity on human capital accumulation: Exploring the driving factors	20
People inflows as a pandemic trigger: Evidence from a quasi-experimental study	20
Heterogeneous impacts of climate change on morbidity	19
Decoupling genetics from attainments: The role of social environments	17
The causal impact of fetal exposure to PM2.5 on birth outcomes: Evidence from rural China	17
The demand for a COVID-19 vaccine	17
The challenge of estimating the direct and indirect effects of COVID-19 interventions – Toward an integrated economic and epidemiological approach	17
The sorting effect in healthcare access: Those left behind	16
More Than a Ban on Smoking? Behavioural Spillovers of Smoking Bans in the Workplace	16
Convincing the “Herd” of immunity: Lessons from smallpox vaccination in 19th century Germany	16
The mitigating effect of masks on the spread of Covid-19	16
The effect of “smoky” coal bans on chronic lung disease among older people in Ireland	14
Social inequalities in adult mortality across Europe (18th-21st centuries): A critical analysis of theories and evidence	14
The lingering shadow: Understanding the long-term impact of natural disasters on social trust	13
Secular change in heights of rural adults in west-central poland between 1986 and 2016: The transition from pre- to post-communism	13
Health welfare in the digital era: Exploring the impact of digital trade on residents' health	13
War in Ukraine – Changing the Polish paediatric population as a consequence of forced migration (a preliminary study)	12

Fertility and immigration: Do immigrant mothers hand down their fertility pattern to the next generation? Evidence from Norway	12
The impact of biomedical innovation on cancer mortality in 37 countries, 2003–2017	12
A copula-based approach for creating an index of micronutrient intakes at household level in Pakistan	12
The fattening speed: Understanding the impact of internet speed on obesity, and the mediating role of sedentary behaviour	12
Predicting depression in old age: Combining life course data with machine learning	12
Valuing mortality attributable to present and future temperature extremes in Argentina	11
Having exams during Ramadan: The case of Indonesia	11
Spousal bereavement and depression: Testing moderating effects of pre-loss circumstances and social support in India	10
Educational burden reduction, educational inequality, and enrollment pressure: Evidence from China	10
Heterogeneity in disease resistance and the impact of antibiotics in the US	10
Intergenerational coresidence and the Covid-19 pandemic in the United States	10
Obesity And Cash Rewards	10
Self-employment, health, and health care: When the going gets tough, the tough get going?	10
Obesity inequality and well-being in Germany	10
Air pollution and health of working-age population: Evidence from thermal inversion	10
Born to be wild: Second-to-fourth digit length ratio and risk preferences	9
Severe prenatal shocks and adolescent health: Evidence from the Dutch Hunger Winter	9
Early socioeconomic status, social mobility and cognitive trajectories in later life: A life course perspective	9
The effects of social capital deprivation for wellbeing: Evidence from the Covid-19 pandemic	9
The impact of heat and cold on mortality and life expectancy in Europe, 2015–2024	9
Soda expansion in the tropics: The effect on obesity rates among women without piped water at home	8
Parental gender preferences over three centuries: Evidence from Argentina	8
The geography of healthcare: Mapping patient flow and medical resource allocation in China	8
Deforestation and child health in Cambodia	8
A comment on “Treatment design, health outcomes, and demographic categories in the literature on minimum wages and health.”	8
Workplace autonomy and mental health	8
The height premium: A systematic review and meta-analysis	8
State dependence in immunization and the role of discouragement	8
De-normalizing smoking in urban areas: Public smoking bans and smoking prevalence	8
Living standards in settler South Africa, 1865–1920	8
Income insecurity and mental health in pandemic times	8
The impact of informal and formal care disruption on older adults’ psychological distress during the COVID-19 pandemic in UK	8
Editorial Board	8
Stunting and wasting in a growing economy: biological living standards in Portugal during the twentieth century	8
Auspicious years, the birth of girls, and their birth outcomes	7
Paid family leave and parental investments in infant health: Evidence from California	7
Digital transformation: The role of computer use in employee health	7
Are stunted child – overweight mother pairs a real defined entity or a statistical artifact?	7
Unconditional cash transfers, health and savings	7
The intergenerational legacy of the 1959–1961 Great Chinese Famine on children’s cognitive development	7
Female heights and sexual dimorphism in Argentina: Data from inmates of a Buenos Aires prison, 1865–1952	7
Explaining adverse cholesterol levels and distinct gender patterns in an Indonesian population compared with the U.S.	7
The “Quiet Revolution” and the cesarean section in the United States	7
Sweet or not: Using information and cognitive dissonance to nudge children toward healthier food choices	7
Exploring the hidden impact of the Covid-19 pandemic: The role of urbanization	7
Assessing the impact of fostering on children’s outcomes in Niger	7
Old age takes its toll: Long-run projections of health-related public expenditure in Luxembourg	7
The effects of taxation on the individual consumption of sugar-sweetened beverages	7
Employer-sponsored health insurance and labor market outcomes for men in same-sex couples: Evidence from the advent of pre-exposure prophylaxis	7
Influence of poverty concerns on demand for healthier processed foods: A field experiment in Mexico City	6

Health, income, and the preston curve: A long view	6
In the eye of the storm. Long-term impact of the Covid-19 pandemic on healthcare utilization in Lombardy	6
Daylight duration and time allocation of children and adolescents	6
The international diffusion of medical innovation since 1900: Revisiting the Preston curve	6
Child health inequality in Sub-Saharan Africa	6
Employee well-being in the digital age: Assessing the impacts of a smartphone application in the workplace	6
Trust predicts compliance with COVID-19 containment policies: Evidence from ten countries using big data	6
In the shadow of a pandemic: Informality and COVID-19 diffusion in Europe	6
Is household shock a boon or bane to the utilisation of preventive healthcare for children? Evidence from Uganda	6
Editorial Board	6
Editorial Board	6
Adolescent girls’ empowerment policy, health awareness, and decision-making: Evidence from the SABLA program in India	6
The value of extending healthy life expectancy: A framework for healthcare policy evaluation	6
Harder being left behind: Health status of Indian women from migrant households	6
How do basic income for elderly affect health of self-employed?	6
Temperature exposure and sleep duration: Evidence from time use surveys	6
Economic development, intergenerational mobility, and health in South Korea	6
From pandemic to endemic: Spatial-temporal patterns of influenza-like illness incidence in a Swiss canton, 1918–1924	6
Empowering women, enhancing diets: The impact of women’s bargaining power on dietary quality in urban China	5
Women’s age at marriage and obesity in Pakistan	5
Birth order and children’s health and learning outcomes in India	5
Equity in use and financing of assisted reproductive technologies: Does income matter?	5
The gender wage gap across life: Effects of genetic predisposition towards higher educational attainment	5
Editorial Board	5
Social homogeneity and spread of pandemic: Evidence from India	5
Pain trends and pain growth disparities, 2009–2021	5
Exposure to wildfires and health outcomes of vulnerable people: Evidence from US data	5
The “Long-arm” of chronic conditions in childhood: Evidence from Canada using linked survey-administrative data	5
Fertility behaviour under geopolitical uncertainty: Evidence from Ukraine	5
Corrigendum to “The impact of Long-term Care Insurance on household income inequality: Evidence from China” [Econ. Hum. Biol. 59 (2025) 101519]	5
Surviving the Deluge: British servicemen in World War I	5
Bodyweight and human capital development: Assessing the impact of obesity on socioemotional skills during childhood in Chile	5
Editorial Board	5
Time preference and nutrition label use: Evidence from China	5
Education and COVID-19 excess mortality	5
Responses in child health to concerted reconstruction efforts in the aftermath of the 2016 earthquake in Ecuador	5
Urban-rural medical insurance integration and universal health insurance coverage in China: A quasi-experimental study	5
Mental health effects of social distancing in Switzerland	5
When the thermometer rises, the scales tip: Extreme temperature exposure and obesity	5
The height of Swiss mercenaries, c. 1725 – c. 1865	5
Shattered ground, shaken minds: Mental health consequences of earthquakes	5
Elections have (health) consequences: Depression, anxiety, and the 2020 presidential election	5
Growing up in a growing economy. Reassessing changes in biological living standards in Portugal during the twentieth century	5