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 2020-04-01 to 2024-04-01.)

Article	Citations
Fathers matter: Intrahousehold responsibilities and children's wellbeing during the COVID-19 lockdown in Italy	57
Oakland’s sugar-sweetened beverage tax: Impacts on prices, purchases and consumption by adults and children	49
The impact of Seattle’s Sweetened Beverage Tax on beverage prices and volume sold	46
The psychological burden of the COVID-19 pandemic severity	43
The great crime recovery: Crimes against women during, and after, the COVID-19 lockdown in Mexico	37
Evaluating Saudi Arabia’s 50% carbonated drink excise tax: Changes in prices and volume sales	33
Intergenerational residence patterns and Covid-19 fatalities in the EU and the US*	32
Armed conflict and birth weight	25
Unemployment and sleep: evidence from the United States and Europe	25
Obesity and hiring discrimination	25
The macroeconomic impacts of diet-related fiscal policy for NCD prevention: A systematic review	23
Lockdown strictness and mental health effects among older populations in Europe	23
An analysis of the stock market reaction to the announcements of the UK Soft Drinks Industry Levy	21
Effects of large gatherings on the COVID-19 epidemic: Evidence from professional and college sports	20
Disease and fertility: Evidence from the 1918–19 influenza pandemic in Sweden	20
Social class-specific secular trends in height among 19-year old Polish men: 6th national surveys from 1965 till 2010	19
Impact of a sweetened beverage tax on beverage prices in Seattle, WA	18
Childhood stunting and cognitive effects of water and sanitation in Indonesia	18
Does better education mitigate risky health behavior? A mendelian randomization study	18
Insights on the implications of COVID-19 mitigation measures for mental health	16
Nutritional and socio-economic predictors of adult height in 152 world populations	16
The impact of the Philadelphia beverage tax on employment: A synthetic control analysis	16
Newborn health and the business cycle: The role of birth order	16
Valuing pain using the subjective well-being method	16
The local and global mental health effects of the Covid-19 pandemic	15

Early adoption of non-pharmaceutical interventions and COVID-19 mortality	15
The impact of UK soft drinks industry levy on manufacturers’ domestic turnover	15
Social media use and emotional and behavioural outcomes in adolescence: Evidence from British longitudinal data	14
The New school food standards and nutrition of school children: Direct and Indirect Effect Analysis	14
How children's education affects caregiving: Evidence from parent’s last years of life	14
Impacts of boarding on primary school students’ mental health outcomes – Instrumental-Variable evidence from rural northwestern China	14
The impact of widowhood on wellbeing, health, and care use: A longitudinal analysis across Europe	13
Who drinks soda pop? Economic status and adult consumption of sugar-sweetened beverages	13
Younger, dissatisfied, and unhealthy – Relative age in adolescence	13
The effect of retirement on biomedical and behavioral risk factors for cardiovascular and metabolic disease	13
The effect of working hours on health	13
Do prices and purchases respond similarly to soft drink tax increases and cuts?	13
Determinants of bicycle commuting and the effect of bicycle infrastructure investment in London: Evidence from UK census microdata	12
Did Covid-19 hit harder in peripheral areas? The case of Italian municipalities	12
Effectiveness of social distancing interventions in containing COVID-19 incidence: International evidence using Kalman filter	12
Early warning of vulnerable counties in a pandemic using socio-economic variables	12
The effect of local unemployment on health: A longitudinal study of Irish mothers 2001-2011	12
Leisure-time physical activity is associated with socio-economic status beyond income – Cross-sectional survey of the Northern Finland Birth Cohort 1966 study	12
Spousal bereavement and the cognitive health of older adults in the US: New insights on channels, single items, and subjective evidence	11
Height shrinkage, health and mortality among older adults: Evidence from Indonesia	11
Is owning your home good for your health? Evidence from exogenous variations in subsidies in England	11
The association between male height and lifespan in rural Spain, birth cohorts 1835-1939	11
The effect of bereavement on cognitive functioning among elderly people: Evidence from Australia	11
The effect of retirement on health biomarkers	11
Can the updated nutrition facts label decrease sugar-sweetened beverage consumption?	11
Going beyond the mean in examining relationships of adolescent non-cognitive skills with health-related quality of life and biomarkers in later-life	11
The impact of past pandemics on economic and gender inequalities	11
The health and financial impacts of a sugary drink tax across different income groups in Canada	10
Maternal stress during pregnancy and early childhood development	10
Drudgery reduction, physical activity and energy requirements in rural livelihoods	10
Farm fatalities in Northern Ireland agriculture: What fifty years of data tell us	10
Visiting parents in times of COVID-19: The impact of parent-adult child contacts on the psychological health of the elderly	10
Air pollution and infant mortality: Evidence from China	10
Are only children in China more likely to be obese/overweight than their counterparts with siblings?	10
Rainfall and child weight in Uganda	10
Catch-up growth in height and cognitive function: Why definitions matter	10
Black-white disparities during an epidemic: Life expectancy and lifespan disparity in the US, 1980–2000	10
The impact of the Cook County, IL, Sweetened Beverage Tax on beverage prices	10
Digital transformation: The role of computer use in employee health	10
Maternal education and infant health gradient: New answers to old questions	10
Political violence and child health: Results from Zimbabwe	9
Early-life exposure to parental mental distress and adulthood depression among middle-aged and elderly Chinese	9
As if it weren’t hard enough already: Breaking down hiring discrimination following burnout	9
Physical mobility under stay-at-home orders: A comparative analysis of movement restrictions between the U.S. and Europe	9
Proximity to SNAP-authorized retailers and child maltreatment reports	9
A bitter epidemic: The impact of the 1918 influenza on sugar production in Java	9
The impact of civil conflict on child health: Evidence from Colombia	9
The effect of income support programs on job search, workplace mobility and COVID-19: International evidence	9
Socioeconomic inequalities in obesity in Brazil	8
The effect of lockdowns and infection rates on supermarket sales	8

Regional inequalities in adiposity in England: distributional analysis of the contribution of individual-level characteristics and the small area obesogenic environment	8
Recreational marijuana laws and junk food consumption	8
Political violence, adverse shocks and child malnutrition: Empirical evidence from Andhra Pradesh, India	8
Beauty perks: Physical appearance, earnings, and fringe benefits	8
International travel in times of the COVID-19 pandemic: The case of German school breaks	8
Chronic kidney disease and household behaviors in Sri Lanka: Historical choices of drinking water and agrochemical use	8
The impact of lockdowns during the COVID-19 pandemic on fertility intentions	8
Early marriage and maternal health care utilisation: Evidence from sub-Saharan Africa	8
Vaccination rates and COVID outcomes across U.S. states	8
The effect of pharmaceutical innovation on longevity: Evidence from the U.S. and 26 high-income countries	8
The importance of workplace accommodation for cancer survivors – The role of flexible work schedules and psychological help in returning to work	8
The Influence of Household Refrigerator Ownership on Diets in Vietnam	8
Pain trends and pain growth disparities, 2009–2021	7
Economic development in Puerto Rico after US annexation: Anthropometric evidence	7
The value of COVID-19 tests in Latin America	7
People versus machines: The impact of being in an automatable job on Australian worker’s mental health and life satisfaction	7
Disparities in COVID-19 mortality by county racial composition and the role of spring social distancing measures	7
Treatment design, health outcomes, and demographic categories in the literature on minimum wages and health	7
Mass gathering events and the spread of infectious diseases: Evidence from the early growth phase of COVID-19	7
Active leisure, passive leisure and health	7
Regional differences in diabetes across Europe – regression and causal forest analyses	7
Height and marital outcomes in the Netherlands, birth years 1841-1900	7
Estimating the causal effect of liability to disease on healthcare costs using Mendelian Randomization	7
The effect of parental smoking on children’s cognitive and non-cognitive skills	7
Time spent exercising and obesity: An application of Lewbel’s instrumental variables method	7
Offspring migration and nutritional status of left-behind older adults in rural China	7
Is the intergenerational transmission of overweight ‘gender assortative’?	7
Height, marriage, and partner characteristics for women in low- and middle-income countries	7
Can shorter mothers have taller children? Nutritional mobility, health equity and the intergenerational transmission of relative height	6
The rise in extreme mental distress among LGBT people during Trump’s rise and presidency	6
Parenthood and smoking	6
Tobacco taxes and illicit cigarette trade in Colombia	6
Too unwell to trust? The effect of mental health on social trust in Europe	6
The impact of BMI on mental health: Further evidence from genetic markers	6
The reliability of adult self-reported height: The role of interviewers	6
Sunlight and Protection Against Influenza	6
Decomposing consumer and producer effects on sugar from beverage purchases after a sugar-based tax on beverages in South Africa	6
Mendelian randomization analysis of the causal impact of body mass index and waist-hip ratio on rates of hospital admission	6
Death, demography and the denominator: Age-adjusted Influenza-18 mortality in Ireland	6
Effects of welfare reform on household food insecurity across generations	6
The origins of cognitive skills and non-cognitive skills: The long-term effect of in-utero rainfall shocks in India	6
What doesn’t kill her, will make her depressed	6
Human papillomavirus vaccine and risky sexual behavior: Regression discontinuity design evidence from Brazil	6
Inequality, low-intensity immigration and human capital formation in the regions of Chile, 1820-1939	6
Price impact of taxes on sugary drinks in Brazil	6
Modelling children's anthropometric status using Bayesian distributional regression merging socio-economic and remote sensed data from South Asia and sub-Saharan Africa	6
The effects of weather shocks on early childhood development: Evidence from 25 years of tropical storms in Jamaica	6
Productivity, obesity, and human capital: Panel data evidence	6
The effect of height on earnings: Is stature just a proxy for cognitive and non-cognitive skills?	6