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 2022-05-01 to 2026-05-01.)

Article	Citations
In and out of unemployment—Labour market transitions and the role of testosterone	57
Vulnerability and COVID-19 infection rates: A changing relationship during the first year of the pandemic	30
The demand for a COVID-19 vaccine	28
The causal impact of fetal exposure to PM2.5 on birth outcomes: Evidence from rural China	23
People versus machines: The impact of being in an automatable job on Australian worker’s mental health and life satisfaction	23
Does searching online for vaccination information affect vaccination coverage? Evidence from Sub-Saharan African countries	22
Health insurance, labor market shocks, and mental health during the first year of the COVID-19 crisis	21
COVID-19, deaths at home and end-of-life cancer care	21
Long-term exposure to ambient PM2.5 and population health: evidence from linked census data	20
Cognitive or non-cognitive? The effect of maternal dominance on adolescent human capital: Evidence from adolescents' educational decisions	19
The challenge of estimating the direct and indirect effects of COVID-19 interventions – Toward an integrated economic and epidemiological approach	18
People inflows as a pandemic trigger: Evidence from a quasi-experimental study	17
The impact of obesity on human capital accumulation: Exploring the driving factors	17
Heterogeneous impacts of climate change on morbidity	17
The lingering shadow: Understanding the long-term impact of natural disasters on social trust	16
Decoupling genetics from attainments: The role of social environments	16
More Than a Ban on Smoking? Behavioural Spillovers of Smoking Bans in the Workplace	16
The sorting effect in healthcare access: Those left behind	15
Convincing the “Herd” of immunity: Lessons from smallpox vaccination in 19th century Germany	15
The mitigating effect of masks on the spread of Covid-19	14
The effect of “smoky” coal bans on chronic lung disease among older people in Ireland	13
Social inequalities in adult mortality across Europe (18th-21st centuries): A critical analysis of theories and evidence	13
Secular change in heights of rural adults in west-central poland between 1986 and 2016: The transition from pre- to post-communism	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

Predicting depression in old age: Combining life course data with machine learning	12
Health welfare in the digital era: Exploring the impact of digital trade on residents' health	12
Fertility and immigration: Do immigrant mothers hand down their fertility pattern to the next generation? Evidence from Norway	12
Valuing mortality attributable to present and future temperature extremes in Argentina	12
Having exams during Ramadan: The case of Indonesia	11
War in Ukraine – Changing the Polish paediatric population as a consequence of forced migration (a preliminary study)	11
Spousal bereavement and depression: Testing moderating effects of pre-loss circumstances and social support in India	10
Heterogeneity in disease resistance and the impact of antibiotics in the US	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
The fattening speed: Understanding the impact of internet speed on obesity, and the mediating role of sedentary behaviour	10
Intergenerational coresidence and the Covid-19 pandemic in the United States	10
Educational burden reduction, educational inequality, and enrollment pressure: Evidence from China	9
The effects of social capital deprivation for wellbeing: Evidence from the Covid-19 pandemic	9
Air pollution and health of working-age population: Evidence from thermal inversion	9
Early socioeconomic status, social mobility and cognitive trajectories in later life: A life course perspective	9
Severe prenatal shocks and adolescent health: Evidence from the Dutch Hunger Winter	9
Obesity And Cash Rewards	9
State dependence in immunization and the role of discouragement	8
Workplace autonomy and mental health	8
The height premium: A systematic review and meta-analysis	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
The impact of informal and formal care disruption on older adults’ psychological distress during the COVID-19 pandemic in UK	8
Born to be wild: Second-to-fourth digit length ratio and risk preferences	8
Soda expansion in the tropics: The effect on obesity rates among women without piped water at home	8
Living standards in settler South Africa, 1865–1920	8
Parental gender preferences over three centuries: Evidence from Argentina	8
The geography of healthcare: Mapping patient flow and medical resource allocation in China	7
Assessing the impact of fostering on children’s outcomes in Niger	7
Digital transformation: The role of computer use in employee health	7
Old age takes its toll: Long-run projections of health-related public expenditure in Luxembourg	7
The intergenerational legacy of the 1959–1961 Great Chinese Famine on children’s cognitive development	7
Income insecurity and mental health in pandemic times	7
Exploring the hidden impact of the Covid-19 pandemic: The role of urbanization	7
Female heights and sexual dimorphism in Argentina: Data from inmates of a Buenos Aires prison, 1865–1952	7
Auspicious years, the birth of girls, and their birth outcomes	7
Employer-sponsored health insurance and labor market outcomes for men in same-sex couples: Evidence from the advent of pre-exposure prophylaxis	7
Stunting and wasting in a growing economy: biological living standards in Portugal during the twentieth century	7
De-normalizing smoking in urban areas: Public smoking bans and smoking prevalence	7
Paid family leave and parental investments in infant health: Evidence from California	7
Explaining adverse cholesterol levels and distinct gender patterns in an Indonesian population compared with the U.S.	7
Are stunted child – overweight mother pairs a real defined entity or a statistical artifact?	7
The value of extending healthy life expectancy: A framework for healthcare policy evaluation	6
The effects of taxation on the individual consumption of sugar-sweetened beverages	6
The “Quiet Revolution” and the cesarean section in the United States	6
Trust predicts compliance with COVID-19 containment policies: Evidence from ten countries using big data	6
Employee well-being in the digital age: Assessing the impacts of a smartphone application in the workplace	6
Temperature exposure and sleep duration: Evidence from time use surveys	6
Editorial Board	6

Unconditional cash transfers, health and savings	6
Sweet or not: Using information and cognitive dissonance to nudge children toward healthier food choices	6
Influence of poverty concerns on demand for healthier processed foods: A field experiment in Mexico City	6
Adolescent girls’ empowerment policy, health awareness, and decision-making: Evidence from the SABLA program in India	6
From pandemic to endemic: Spatial-temporal patterns of influenza-like illness incidence in a Swiss canton, 1918–1924	6
The international diffusion of medical innovation since 1900: Revisiting the Preston curve	6
Editorial Board	6
Health, income, and the preston curve: A long view	6
Child health inequality in Sub-Saharan Africa	6
How do basic income for elderly affect health of self-employed?	5
Pain trends and pain growth disparities, 2009–2021	5
Exposure to wildfires and health outcomes of vulnerable people: Evidence from US data	5
Growing up in a growing economy. Reassessing changes in biological living standards in Portugal during the twentieth century	5
Responses in child health to concerted reconstruction efforts in the aftermath of the 2016 earthquake in Ecuador	5
Time preference and nutrition label use: Evidence from China	5
Editorial Board	5
Shattered ground, shaken minds: Mental health consequences of earthquakes	5
Is household shock a boon or bane to the utilisation of preventive healthcare for children? Evidence from Uganda	5
Education and COVID-19 excess mortality	5
Harder being left behind: Health status of Indian women from migrant households	5
Bodyweight and human capital development: Assessing the impact of obesity on socioemotional skills during childhood in Chile	5
In the shadow of a pandemic: Informality and COVID-19 diffusion in Europe	5
Fertility behaviour under geopolitical uncertainty: Evidence from Ukraine	5
Editorial Board	5
Corrigendum to “The impact of Long-term Care Insurance on household income inequality: Evidence from China” [Econ. Hum. Biol. 59 (2025) 101519]	5
Urban-rural medical insurance integration and universal health insurance coverage in China: A quasi-experimental study	5
The “Long-arm” of chronic conditions in childhood: Evidence from Canada using linked survey-administrative data	5
Daylight duration and time allocation of children and adolescents	5
In the eye of the storm. Long-term impact of the Covid-19 pandemic on healthcare utilization in Lombardy	5
Economic development, intergenerational mobility, and health in South Korea	5
Social homogeneity and spread of pandemic: Evidence from India	5
Women’s age at marriage and obesity in Pakistan	5
Elections have (health) consequences: Depression, anxiety, and the 2020 presidential election	5
Empowering women, enhancing diets: The impact of women’s bargaining power on dietary quality in urban China	5
The gender wage gap across life: Effects of genetic predisposition towards higher educational attainment	5