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 2021-08-01 to 2025-08-01.)

Article	Citations
Health insurance, labor market shocks, and mental health during the first year of the COVID-19 crisis	87
The challenge of estimating the direct and indirect effects of COVID-19 interventions – Toward an integrated economic and epidemiological approach	40
Cognitive or non-cognitive? The effect of maternal dominance on adolescent human capital: Evidence from adolescents' educational decisions	38
The demand for a COVID-19 vaccine	36
People versus machines: The impact of being in an automatable job on Australian worker’s mental health and life satisfaction	30
Does searching online for vaccination information affect vaccination coverage? Evidence from Sub-Saharan African countries	26
Vulnerability and COVID-19 infection rates: A changing relationship during the first year of the pandemic	24
COVID-19, deaths at home and end-of-life cancer care	21
The impact of the State Innovation Models Initiative on population health	21
The causal impact of fetal exposure to PM2.5 on birth outcomes: Evidence from rural China	20
In and out of unemployment—Labour market transitions and the role of testosterone	19
People inflows as a pandemic trigger: Evidence from a quasi-experimental study	19
Long-term exposure to ambient PM2.5 and population health: evidence from linked census data	19
The mitigating effect of masks on the spread of Covid-19	18
The sorting effect in healthcare access: Those left behind	17
The effect of “smoky” coal bans on chronic lung disease among older people in Ireland	17
Decoupling genetics from attainments: The role of social environments	16
The fattening speed: Understanding the impact of internet speed on obesity, and the mediating role of sedentary behaviour	16
Social inequalities in adult mortality across Europe (18th-21st centuries): A critical analysis of theories and evidence	16
Health welfare in the digital era: Exploring the impact of digital trade on residents' health	16
Convincing the “Herd” of immunity: Lessons from smallpox vaccination in 19th century Germany	16
A copula-based approach for creating an index of micronutrient intakes at household level in Pakistan	16
Wrong place, wrong time: The long-run effects of in-utero exposure to malaria on educational attainment	15
Secular change in heights of rural adults in west-central poland between 1986 and 2016: The transition from pre- to post-communism	15
Predicting depression in old age: Combining life course data with machine learning	14

Having exams during Ramadan: The case of Indonesia	14
Fertility and immigration: Do immigrant mothers hand down their fertility pattern to the next generation? Evidence from Norway	14
The long-run effects of adolescent athletic participation on women’s health	14
Early socioeconomic status, social mobility and cognitive trajectories in later life: A life course perspective	13
War in Ukraine – Changing the Polish paediatric population as a consequence of forced migration (a preliminary study)	13
Intergenerational coresidence and the Covid-19 pandemic in the United States	13
Valuing mortality attributable to present and future temperature extremes in Argentina	13
Heterogeneity in disease resistance and the impact of antibiotics in the US	13
Educational burden reduction, educational inequality, and enrollment pressure: Evidence from China	12
Severe prenatal shocks and adolescent health: Evidence from the Dutch Hunger Winter	12
Disease and fertility: Evidence from the 1918–19 influenza pandemic in Sweden	12
Effects of passive smoking on prenatal and infant development: Lessons from the past	12
International travel in times of the COVID-19 pandemic: The case of German school breaks	12
Workplace autonomy and mental health	11
Obesity inequality and well-being in Germany	11
The effects of social capital deprivation for wellbeing: Evidence from the Covid-19 pandemic	11
Obesity And Cash Rewards	11
Parental gender preferences over three centuries: Evidence from Argentina	10
The impact of informal and formal care disruption on older adults’ psychological distress during the COVID-19 pandemic in UK	10
Stunting and wasting in a growing economy: biological living standards in Portugal during the twentieth century	10
Living standards in settler South Africa, 1865–1920	10
Soda expansion in the tropics: The effect on obesity rates among women without piped water at home	10
A comment on “Treatment design, health outcomes, and demographic categories in the literature on minimum wages and health.”	10
The socioeconomic gradient in child health and noncognitive skills: Evidence from the Czech Republic	10
Income insecurity and mental health in pandemic times	10
Menopause as a regulatory device for matching the demand for children with its supply: A hypothesis	10
State dependence in immunization and the role of discouragement	10
Born to be wild: Second-to-fourth digit length ratio and risk preferences	9
De-normalizing smoking in urban areas: Public smoking bans and smoking prevalence	9
Inequality, low-intensity immigration and human capital formation in the regions of Chile, 1820-1939	9
The height premium: A systematic review and meta-analysis	9
Assessing the impact of fostering on children’s outcomes in Niger	9
Deforestation and child health in Cambodia	9
The geography of healthcare: Mapping patient flow and medical resource allocation in China	9
Does retirement affect secondary preventive care use? Evidence from breast cancer screening	9
Digital transformation: The role of computer use in employee health	8
Exploring the hidden impact of the Covid-19 pandemic: The role of urbanization	8
The intergenerational legacy of the 1959–1961 Great Chinese Famine on children’s cognitive development	8
The association between male height and lifespan in rural Spain, birth cohorts 1835-1939	8
Explaining adverse cholesterol levels and distinct gender patterns in an Indonesian population compared with the U.S.	8
Paid family leave and parental investments in infant health: Evidence from California	8
Gender inequality in nutrition intake: Evidence from a large assistance program	7
The “Quiet Revolution” and the cesarean section in the United States	7
Are stunted child – overweight mother pairs a real defined entity or a statistical artifact?	7
Old age takes its toll: Long-run projections of health-related public expenditure in Luxembourg	7
Parental economic insecurity and child health	7
Employer-sponsored health insurance and labor market outcomes for men in same-sex couples: Evidence from the advent of pre-exposure prophylaxis	7
Sweet or not: Using information and cognitive dissonance to nudge children toward healthier food choices	7
Unconditional cash transfers, health and savings	7
Editorial Board	6

Trust predicts compliance with COVID-19 containment policies: Evidence from ten countries using big data	6
The impact of a malaria elimination initiative on school outcomes: Evidence from Southern Mozambique	6
The effects of taxation on the individual consumption of sugar-sweetened beverages	6
The origins of cognitive skills and non-cognitive skills: The long-term effect of in-utero rainfall shocks in India	6
Depression and labor supply: Evidence from the Netherlands	6
From pandemic to endemic: Spatial-temporal patterns of influenza-like illness incidence in a Swiss canton, 1918–1924	6
Health, income, and the preston curve: A long view	6
Auspicious years, the birth of girls, and their birth outcomes	6
As if it weren’t hard enough already: Breaking down hiring discrimination following burnout	6
Active leisure, passive leisure and health	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
Consequences of teenage childbearing on child health	6
Too unwell to trust? The effect of mental health on social trust in Europe	5
Economic development, intergenerational mobility, and health in South Korea	5
Effects of welfare reform on household food insecurity across generations	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
Elections have (health) consequences: Depression, anxiety, and the 2020 presidential election	5
Education and COVID-19 excess mortality	5
Employee well-being in the digital age: Assessing the impacts of a smartphone application in the workplace	5
The impact of past pandemics on economic and gender inequalities	5
Child health inequality in Sub-Saharan Africa	5
How do basic income for elderly affect health of self-employed?	5
Pain trends and pain growth disparities, 2009–2021	5
Bodyweight and human capital development: Assessing the impact of obesity on socioemotional skills during childhood in Chile	5
Is household shock a boon or bane to the utilisation of preventive healthcare for children? Evidence from Uganda	5
The impacts of the Free Semester program on students’ exam nervousness	5
Temperature exposure and sleep duration: Evidence from time use surveys	5
Long-term effects of job loss on male health: BMI and health behaviors	5
Exposure to wildfires and health outcomes of vulnerable people: Evidence from US data	5
Time preference and nutrition label use: Evidence from China	5
Editorial Board	5