Economics & Human Biology

Papers
(The median citation count of Economics & Human Biology is 2. 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 2021-11-01 to 2025-11-01.)
ArticleCitations
Cognitive or non-cognitive? The effect of maternal dominance on adolescent human capital: Evidence from adolescents' educational decisions43
Long-term exposure to ambient PM2.5 and population health: evidence from linked census data41
Heterogeneous impacts of climate change on morbidity38
The demand for a COVID-19 vaccine30
The causal impact of fetal exposure to PM2.5 on birth outcomes: Evidence from rural China30
In and out of unemployment—Labour market transitions and the role of testosterone25
People inflows as a pandemic trigger: Evidence from a quasi-experimental study23
People versus machines: The impact of being in an automatable job on Australian worker’s mental health and life satisfaction22
COVID-19, deaths at home and end-of-life cancer care22
Health insurance, labor market shocks, and mental health during the first year of the COVID-19 crisis22
Does searching online for vaccination information affect vaccination coverage? Evidence from Sub-Saharan African countries21
The challenge of estimating the direct and indirect effects of COVID-19 interventions – Toward an integrated economic and epidemiological approach20
Social inequalities in adult mortality across Europe (18th-21st centuries): A critical analysis of theories and evidence19
More Than a Ban on Smoking? Behavioural Spillovers of Smoking Bans in the Workplace19
Vulnerability and COVID-19 infection rates: A changing relationship during the first year of the pandemic19
The effect of “smoky” coal bans on chronic lung disease among older people in Ireland19
The mitigating effect of masks on the spread of Covid-1918
The sorting effect in healthcare access: Those left behind18
Convincing the “Herd” of immunity: Lessons from smallpox vaccination in 19th century Germany18
Decoupling genetics from attainments: The role of social environments18
Health welfare in the digital era: Exploring the impact of digital trade on residents' health17
The fattening speed: Understanding the impact of internet speed on obesity, and the mediating role of sedentary behaviour17
Secular change in heights of rural adults in west-central poland between 1986 and 2016: The transition from pre- to post-communism17
Predicting depression in old age: Combining life course data with machine learning16
Valuing mortality attributable to present and future temperature extremes in Argentina16
Wrong place, wrong time: The long-run effects of in-utero exposure to malaria on educational attainment16
Fertility and immigration: Do immigrant mothers hand down their fertility pattern to the next generation? Evidence from Norway16
A copula-based approach for creating an index of micronutrient intakes at household level in Pakistan15
War in Ukraine – Changing the Polish paediatric population as a consequence of forced migration (a preliminary study)14
Having exams during Ramadan: The case of Indonesia14
The long-run effects of adolescent athletic participation on women’s health14
Intergenerational coresidence and the Covid-19 pandemic in the United States13
Early socioeconomic status, social mobility and cognitive trajectories in later life: A life course perspective13
Obesity And Cash Rewards13
Obesity inequality and well-being in Germany13
Heterogeneity in disease resistance and the impact of antibiotics in the US12
Workplace autonomy and mental health12
Disease and fertility: Evidence from the 1918–19 influenza pandemic in Sweden12
Severe prenatal shocks and adolescent health: Evidence from the Dutch Hunger Winter12
International travel in times of the COVID-19 pandemic: The case of German school breaks12
Educational burden reduction, educational inequality, and enrollment pressure: Evidence from China12
The effects of social capital deprivation for wellbeing: Evidence from the Covid-19 pandemic12
The geography of healthcare: Mapping patient flow and medical resource allocation in China11
Inequality, low-intensity immigration and human capital formation in the regions of Chile, 1820-193911
The height premium: A systematic review and meta-analysis11
Soda expansion in the tropics: The effect on obesity rates among women without piped water at home11
Income insecurity and mental health in pandemic times11
The socioeconomic gradient in child health and noncognitive skills: Evidence from the Czech Republic10
State dependence in immunization and the role of discouragement10
Born to be wild: Second-to-fourth digit length ratio and risk preferences10
Stunting and wasting in a growing economy: biological living standards in Portugal during the twentieth century10
Deforestation and child health in Cambodia10
Parental gender preferences over three centuries: Evidence from Argentina10
A comment on “Treatment design, health outcomes, and demographic categories in the literature on minimum wages and health.”9
Assessing the impact of fostering on children’s outcomes in Niger9
Living standards in settler South Africa, 1865–19209
Exploring the hidden impact of the Covid-19 pandemic: The role of urbanization9
The impact of informal and formal care disruption on older adults’ psychological distress during the COVID-19 pandemic in UK9
Digital transformation: The role of computer use in employee health9
De-normalizing smoking in urban areas: Public smoking bans and smoking prevalence9
Unconditional cash transfers, health and savings8
As if it weren’t hard enough already: Breaking down hiring discrimination following burnout8
Does retirement affect secondary preventive care use? Evidence from breast cancer screening8
Auspicious years, the birth of girls, and their birth outcomes8
Explaining adverse cholesterol levels and distinct gender patterns in an Indonesian population compared with the U.S.8
The intergenerational legacy of the 1959–1961 Great Chinese Famine on children’s cognitive development8
Paid family leave and parental investments in infant health: Evidence from California8
The origins of cognitive skills and non-cognitive skills: The long-term effect of in-utero rainfall shocks in India8
The association between male height and lifespan in rural Spain, birth cohorts 1835-19398
Are stunted child – overweight mother pairs a real defined entity or a statistical artifact?7
The “Quiet Revolution” and the cesarean section in the United States7
Gender inequality in nutrition intake: Evidence from a large assistance program7
The impact of past pandemics on economic and gender inequalities7
Sweet or not: Using information and cognitive dissonance to nudge children toward healthier food choices7
Old age takes its toll: Long-run projections of health-related public expenditure in Luxembourg7
The effects of taxation on the individual consumption of sugar-sweetened beverages7
Adolescent girls’ empowerment policy, health awareness, and decision-making: Evidence from the SABLA program in India7
Depression and labor supply: Evidence from the Netherlands7
Employer-sponsored health insurance and labor market outcomes for men in same-sex couples: Evidence from the advent of pre-exposure prophylaxis7
Parental economic insecurity and child health7
Employee well-being in the digital age: Assessing the impacts of a smartphone application in the workplace7
Child health inequality in Sub-Saharan Africa7
Temperature exposure and sleep duration: Evidence from time use surveys6
Influence of poverty concerns on demand for healthier processed foods: A field experiment in Mexico City6
Long-term effects of job loss on male health: BMI and health behaviors6
Editorial Board6
Exposure to wildfires and health outcomes of vulnerable people: Evidence from US data6
From pandemic to endemic: Spatial-temporal patterns of influenza-like illness incidence in a Swiss canton, 1918–19246
How do basic income for elderly affect health of self-employed?6
Time preference and nutrition label use: Evidence from China6
Economic development, intergenerational mobility, and health in South Korea6
The impacts of the Free Semester program on students’ exam nervousness6
Education and COVID-19 excess mortality6
Active leisure, passive leisure and health6
Daylight duration and time allocation of children and adolescents6
In the eye of the storm. Long-term impact of the Covid-19 pandemic on healthcare utilization in Lombardy6
Pain trends and pain growth disparities, 2009–20216
Elections have (health) consequences: Depression, anxiety, and the 2020 presidential election6
Trust predicts compliance with COVID-19 containment policies: Evidence from ten countries using big data6
The impact of a malaria elimination initiative on school outcomes: Evidence from Southern Mozambique6
Is household shock a boon or bane to the utilisation of preventive healthcare for children? Evidence from Uganda6
Health, income, and the preston curve: A long view6
The “Long-arm” of chronic conditions in childhood: Evidence from Canada using linked survey-administrative data6
Effects of welfare reform on household food insecurity across generations6
Harder being left behind: Health status of Indian women from migrant households6
Surviving the Deluge: British servicemen in World War I5
Gender differences in the effect of teleworking on job loss during the COVID-19 pandemic in Spain5
When the thermometer rises, the scales tip: Extreme temperature exposure and obesity5
Editorial Board5
Mendelian randomization analysis of the causal impact of body mass index and waist-hip ratio on rates of hospital admission5
Bodyweight and human capital development: Assessing the impact of obesity on socioemotional skills during childhood in Chile5
Mental health effects of social distancing in Switzerland5
Mother’s age at marriage and gender-differential in child schooling: Evidence from Pakistan5
The health consequences of returning to work after retirement: Evidence from a Japanese longitudinal survey5
Cash transfers and mental health in Egypt5
The gender wage gap across life: Effects of genetic predisposition towards higher educational attainment5
Facing an unfortunate trade-off: policy responses, lessons and spill-overs during the COVID-19 pandemic5
Empowering women, enhancing diets: The impact of women’s bargaining power on dietary quality in urban China5
Treatment design, health outcomes, and demographic categories in the literature on minimum wages and health5
Birth order and children’s health and learning outcomes in India5
Inequality of opportunity in infant mortality in South Asia: A decomposition analysis of survival data5
The business cycle, health behavior, and chronic disease: A study over Three decades5
Editorial Board5
Shattered ground, shaken minds: Mental health consequences of earthquakes5
Effects of large gatherings on the COVID-19 epidemic: Evidence from professional and college sports5
Equity in use and financing of assisted reproductive technologies: Does income matter?5
Rational self-medication5
The relationship between early-life conditions in the home country and adult outcomes among child immigrants in the United States4
Are austerity measures really distressing? Evidence from Italy4
Height and political activism in rural Aragón (Spain) during the 20th century. A new perspective using individual-level data4
The intergenerational association of epigenetic modifications between mothers and offspring, from birth to adolescence4
Family size and vaccination among older individuals: The case of COVID-19 vaccine4
The effects of physical activity prescription on mental health: Evidence from primary care4
Global pain levels before and during the COVID-19 pandemic4
State-led regional development strategy and multidimensional health poverty of the residents: Evidence from the China’s great western development program4
Effectiveness of social distancing interventions in containing COVID-19 incidence: International evidence using Kalman filter4
The full distribution of adult height in Poland: Cohorts born between 1920 and 1996. The biological cost of the economic transition4
Maternal employment and childhood obesity in Russia4
The impact of lockdowns during the COVID-19 pandemic on fertility intentions4
Second generation effects of an experimental conditional cash transfer program on early childhood human capital in Nicaragua4
Free to die: Economic freedoms and influenza mortality4
Smoking to your kids gain? Childhood exposure to parental smoking and obesity4
Expensive famine: Early hunger experience and diabetes treatment burden4
Family poverty and adolescents’ cognitive and noncognitive outcomes: Evidence from China4
The effect of height on earnings: Is stature just a proxy for cognitive and non-cognitive skills?4
Beyond the biological prime: Deciphering the link between child survival and maternal age in India4
On a tendency in health economics to dwell on income inequality and underestimate social stress4
Short men in poor lands: The agrarian workers from southwestern Spain in anthropometric perspective4
Hypertension effects of the COVID-19 lockdowns: Evidence from a repeated cross-sectional survey in Peru4
Genetic endowments for social capital: An investigation accounting for genetic nurturing effects4
When in America, do as the Americans? The evolution of health behaviors and outcomes across immigrant cohorts4
Editorial Board4
How important is girls’ ‘Biological Head Start’ in explaining gender differences in education and the labour market?4
Impacts of a minimum pricing policy on high fat, sugar and sodium (HFSS) foods: Environmental, dietary and welfare analysis4
Does becoming an informal caregiver make your health worse? A longitudinal analysis across Europe4
Race, immunity, and lifespan: Unraveling the effect of early-life exposure to malaria risk on lifespan4
The impact of new energy demonstration city policy on the mental health of middle-aged and older adults4
Birth weight and school performance4
Mothers’ caregiving during COVID: The impact of marital property laws on women’s labor force status4
Close encounters during a pandemic: Social habits and inter-generational links in the first two waves of COVID-194
The rise in extreme mental distress among LGBT people during Trump’s rise and presidency4
Height development trends among 7–18-year-old school-age children in central plains of China between 2000 and 2019: A serial cross-sectional surveillance study in China3
Studying informal care during the pandemic: mental health, gender and job status3
In utero and childhood exposure to alcohol and old age mortality: Evidence from the temperance movement in the US3
Spillover effects of retirement: Does health vulnerability matter?3
A tale of lockdown policies on the transmission of COVID-19 within and between Chinese cities: A study based on heterogeneous treatment effect3
Do socioeconomic health gradients persist over time and beyond income? A distributional analysis using UK biomarker data3
Mass gathering events and the spread of infectious diseases: Evidence from the early growth phase of COVID-193
Power to choose? Examining the link between contraceptive use decision and domestic violence3
The impact of civil conflict on child health: Evidence from Colombia3
Direct and crowding-out effects of a Hepatitis B vaccination campaign3
Diverging destinies: How children are faring under demographic transition3
An investigation of body mass distributional changes in Australia, 1995–2017/183
The impact of widowhood on wellbeing, health, and care use: A longitudinal analysis across Europe3
Genetic nurture in educational attainment3
Shelter-in-place orders, loneliness, and collaborative behavior3
Seasonal patterns in newborns’ health: Quantifying the roles of climate, communicable disease, economic and social factors3
Editorial Board3
Intergenerational transmission of fertility in Spain among cohorts born during the first half of twentieth century3
Trade liberalization and nutrition transition: Evidence from China3
Teen parent trap? The education and labor implications of motherhood and fatherhood during the transition from adolescence to adulthood in Cebu, the Philippines3
The impact of overweight and obesity on unemployment duration among young American workers3
Migrant well-being in Australia: Does locus of control matter?3
Discrimination backfires? Minority ethnic disparities in vaccine hesitancy3
Smoking cessation and weight gain: Evidence from China3
A comment on “Height and the standard of living in Puerto Rico from the Spanish Enlightenment to annexation by the United States, 1770–1924”3
The effect of combat exposure on sexually transmitted diseases3
Lockdown strictness and mental health effects among older populations in Europe3
How do childhood ADHD symptoms affect labour market outcomes?3
Is inconsistent reporting of self-assessed health persistent and systematic? Evidence from the UKHLS3
Height and standard of living in Puerto Rico from the Spanish enlightenment to annexation by the United States, 1770–19243
Transgenerational health effects of in utero exposure to economic hardship: Evidence from preindustrial Southern Norway3
The effect of paid parental leave on breastfeeding, parental health and behavior2
The modification of social space as a tool for lowering social stress2
Childhood obesity, is fast food exposure a factor?2
Immigration policy shocks and infant health2
Fiscal externalities and underinvestment in early-life human capital: Optimal policy instruments for a developing country2
Assessing the effectiveness of mandatory outdoor mask policy: The natural experiment of Campania2
Can nudging overcome procrastinating on preventive health investments?2
Assessing the effectiveness of international government responses to the COVID-19 pandemic2
The effects of adolescent depression and attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder on educational attainment in adulthood2
Response to Douglas A. Wolf comment on “Treatment design, health outcomes, and demographic categories in the literature on minimum wages and health”2
No “honeymoon phase”: whose health benefits from retirement and when2
High temperatures and traffic accident crimes: Evidence from more than 470,000 offenses in China2
Religiosity, attitudes toward science, and public health: Evidence from Finland2
The effect of siblings’ sex ratio on physical capital, human capital, and gendered time use among adolescents in Ethiopia2
Desert locust swarms and child health2
Sleep hours fall as income rises: Macro and micro evidence on sleep inequality around the world2
The relationship between Marriage and Body Mass Index in China:Evidence from the China Health and Nutrition Survey2
Childhood circumstances, social mobility and the obesity transition: Evidence from South Africa2
The association between chronotype and wages at mid-age2
Persistent Pandemics2
Labour market implications of thyroid dysfunctions2
The effect of hurricanes on mental health over the long term2
COVID-19 transmission in a resource dependent community with heterogeneous populations: An agent-based modeling approach2
Editorial Board2
The effect of pharmaceutical innovation on longevity: Evidence from the U.S. and 26 high-income countries2
Spousal bereavement and the cognitive health of older adults in the US: New insights on channels, single items, and subjective evidence2
How did the European Marriage Pattern persist? Social versus familial inheritance: England and Quebec, 1650–18502
Exposure to Islamophobia: The impacts of an increased risk of bullying victimization on human capital2
Association of cigarette smoking with changes in macroeconomic conditions2
The long-run and intergenerational impact of early exposure to the Great Chinese Famine of 1959–61 on mental health2
Housing insecurity, financial hardship and mental health2
Occupational differences in the effects of retirement on hospitalizations for mental illness among female workers: Evidence from administrative data in China2
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Health inequality and health insurance coverage: The United States and China compared2
Prenatal climate shocks and adult height in developing countries. Evidence from Japan (1872–1917).2
The reliability of adult self-reported height: The role of interviewers2
Economic freedom and gender health gap in the E.U.2
Internet use and physical and mental health in old age during the COVID-19 pandemic: Evidence from partners in SHARE2
School starting age and nutritional outcomes: Evidence from Brazil2
Too busy with the “rat race” to have kids? Longitudinal evidence on the impact of peer grit on the fertility of reproductive-age women in China2
The illness trap: The impact of disability benefits on willingness to receive HCV treatment2
Did the Finnish depression of the early 1990s have a silver lining? The effect of unemployment on long-term physical activity2
The impact of individuals’ preventive behaviours on health and healthcare utilisation2
Height self-selection of internal migrants in Italy in the second half of the twentieth century2
Impact of Isolation measures on pregnancy outcome during the COVID-19 pandemic2
General and COVID19-specific emotional stress: Religious practice as a potential coping strategy2
Obesity and food away from home: What drives the socioeconomic gradient in excess body weight?2
Cigarette packaging, warnings, prices, and contraband: A discrete choice experiment among smokers in Ontario, Canada2
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