OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Economics & Human Biology is 4. 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 2021-04-01 to 2025-04-01.)

Article	Citations
Cognitive or non-cognitive? The effect of maternal dominance on adolescent human capital: Evidence from adolescents' educational decisions	83
Schools and the transmission of Sars-Cov-2: Evidence from Italy	53
The economics of aging with infectious and chronic diseases	51
The financial situation before and after first-time psychiatric in-patient diagnosis of schizophrenia spectrum, bipolar, and major depressive disorder	33
Does searching online for vaccination information affect vaccination coverage? Evidence from Sub-Saharan African countries	32
The “Quiet Revolution” and the cesarean section in the United States	32
When in America, do as the Americans? The evolution of health behaviors and outcomes across immigrant cohorts	30
What doesn’t kill her, will make her depressed	27
Aging out of the federal dependent coverage mandate and purchases of prescription drugs with high rates of misuse	21
Infant feeding and post-weaning health: Evidence from turn-of-the-century London	19
The relationship between early-life conditions in the home country and adult outcomes among child immigrants in the United States	19
Gender inequality in nutrition intake: Evidence from a large assistance program	17
Editorial Board	17
The impact of the State Innovation Models Initiative on population health	17
People inflows as a pandemic trigger: Evidence from a quasi-experimental study	16
Childhood circumstances, social mobility and the obesity transition: Evidence from South Africa	16
Does democracy make taller men? Cross-country European evidence	16
Unconditional cash transfers, health and savings	15
Employer-sponsored health insurance and labor market outcomes for men in same-sex couples: Evidence from the advent of pre-exposure prophylaxis	15
Editorial Board	15
Childhood obesity, is fast food exposure a factor?	14
The demand for a COVID-19 vaccine	14
Did Covid-19 hit harder in peripheral areas? The case of Italian municipalities	14
Does becoming an informal caregiver make your health worse? A longitudinal analysis across Europe	14
Editorial Board	14

Health inequality and health insurance coverage: The United States and China compared	14
The great crime recovery: Crimes against women during, and after, the COVID-19 lockdown in Mexico	13
The reliability of adult self-reported height: The role of interviewers	13
Global pain levels before and during the COVID-19 pandemic	13
The effect of height on earnings: Is stature just a proxy for cognitive and non-cognitive skills?	12
La Dolce Vita in times of harshness: Prevalence of health-related behaviors during the great recession in Italy	12
The challenge of estimating the direct and indirect effects of COVID-19 interventions – Toward an integrated economic and epidemiological approach	11
Coupling and decoupling of ancestral linkages and current cross-border economic activities: Genetics and policy	11
Stunting, IQ, and final school attainment in the Cebu Longitudinal Health and Nutrition Survey birth cohort	11
Old age takes its toll: Long-run projections of health-related public expenditure in Luxembourg	11
Productivity, obesity, and human capital: Panel data evidence	11
Vulnerability and COVID-19 infection rates: A changing relationship during the first year of the pandemic	11
Occupational differences in the effects of retirement on hospitalizations for mental illness among female workers: Evidence from administrative data in China	11
Health insurance, labor market shocks, and mental health during the first year of the COVID-19 crisis	11
A bitter epidemic: The impact of the 1918 influenza on sugar production in Java	11
The impact of lockdowns during the COVID-19 pandemic on fertility intentions	11
COVID-19, deaths at home and end-of-life cancer care	11
Long-term effects of early life rainfall shocks on foundational cognitive skills: Evidence from Peru	11
The effects of taxation on the individual consumption of sugar-sweetened beverages	11
Is paternal height related to fertility outcomes? Evidence from the Netherlands during the secular growth trend	10
The causal impact of fetal exposure to PM2.5 on birth outcomes: Evidence from rural China	10
Maternal employment and childhood obesity in Russia	10
Explaining adverse cholesterol levels and distinct gender patterns in an Indonesian population compared with the U.S.	10
Genetic endowments for social capital: An investigation accounting for genetic nurturing effects	10
Race, immunity, and lifespan: Unraveling the effect of early-life exposure to malaria risk on lifespan	10
How is smoking distributed in relation to socioeconomic status? Evidence from Brazil in the years 2013 and 2019	9
The origins of cognitive skills and non-cognitive skills: The long-term effect of in-utero rainfall shocks in India	9
Family poverty and adolescents’ cognitive and noncognitive outcomes: Evidence from China	9
Persistent Pandemics	9
The importance of workplace accommodation for cancer survivors – The role of flexible work schedules and psychological help in returning to work	9
Casino-based cash transfers and fertility among the Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians in North Carolina: A time-series analysis	9
Sweet or not: Using information and cognitive dissonance to nudge children toward healthier food choices	9
Decentralized wage bargaining and health	9
Parental economic insecurity and child health	8
The effect of paid parental leave on breastfeeding, parental health and behavior	8
Fiscal externalities and underinvestment in early-life human capital: Optimal policy instruments for a developing country	8
The COVID-19 pandemic and birth outcomes in 2020: The role of prenatal care and other channels	8
Beyond the biological prime: Deciphering the link between child survival and maternal age in India	8
Family size and vaccination among older individuals: The case of COVID-19 vaccine	8
Offspring migration and nutritional status of left-behind older adults in rural China	8
Are stunted child – overweight mother pairs a real defined entity or a statistical artifact?	8
Long-term exposure to ambient PM2.5 and population health: evidence from linked census data	8
In and out of unemployment—Labour market transitions and the role of testosterone	7
The effect of “smoky” coal bans on chronic lung disease among older people in Ireland	7
As if it weren’t hard enough already: Breaking down hiring discrimination following burnout	7
COVID-19 crisis management in Luxembourg: Insights from an epidemionomic approach	7
Active leisure, passive leisure and health	7
People versus machines: The impact of being in an automatable job on Australian worker’s mental health and life satisfaction	7
Consequences of teenage childbearing on child health	7
Home alone? Effect of weather-induced behaviour on spread of SARS-CoV-2 in Germany	6

Assessing the effectiveness of mandatory outdoor mask policy: The natural experiment of Campania	6
Too stressed to sleep? Downsizing, job insecurity and sleep behavior	6
Economic development, intergenerational mobility, and health in South Korea	6
Stressor or succour? Examining the association between conflict, livestock assets, and farmers’ mental health in Nigeria	6
Beyond the brink: Unraveling the opioid crisis and its profound impacts	6
A Causal Estimate of Long-Term Health Care Spending Attributable to Body Mass Index Among Adults	6
School starting age and nutritional outcomes: Evidence from Brazil	6
The mitigating effect of masks on the spread of Covid-19	6
Depression and labor supply: Evidence from the Netherlands	6
Editorial Board	6
The effect of income support programs on job search, workplace mobility and COVID-19: International evidence	6
Editorial Board	6
Influence of poverty concerns on demand for healthier processed foods: A field experiment in Mexico City	6
Postpartum medical utilization: The role of prenatal economic activity and living costs	5
Too unwell to trust? The effect of mental health on social trust in Europe	5
Effects of welfare reform on household food insecurity across generations	5
Early adoption of non-pharmaceutical interventions and COVID-19 mortality	5
What is driving the relationship between height and cognition? Evidence from the Twins Early Development Study	5
From pandemic to endemic: Spatial-temporal patterns of influenza-like illness incidence in a Swiss canton, 1918–1924	5
Population policy, family size and child malnutrition in Vietnam – Testing the trade-off between child quantity and quality from a child nutrition perspective	5
Free to die: Economic freedoms and influenza mortality	5
Time spent exercising and obesity: An application of Lewbel’s instrumental variables method	5
Child health inequality in Sub-Saharan Africa	4
Are austerity measures really distressing? Evidence from Italy	4
Causal effect of obesity on the probability of employment in women in Turkey	4
The role of economic news in predicting suicides	4
Adolescent girls’ empowerment policy, health awareness, and decision-making: Evidence from the SABLA program in India	4
Assessing the effectiveness of international government responses to the COVID-19 pandemic	4
Does facial structure explain differences in student evaluations of teaching? The role of fWHR as a proxy for perceived dominance	4
Temperature exposure and sleep duration: Evidence from time use surveys	4
The sorting effect in healthcare access: Those left behind	4
Height self-selection of internal migrants in Italy in the second half of the twentieth century	4
Smoking to your kids gain? Childhood exposure to parental smoking and obesity	4
The effect of pharmaceutical innovation on longevity: Evidence from the U.S. and 26 high-income countries	4
Convincing the “Herd” of immunity: Lessons from smallpox vaccination in 19th century Germany	4
Association of cigarette smoking with changes in macroeconomic conditions	4
It never rains but it pours: Austerity and mortality rate in peripheral areas	4
Stress in the air: A conjecture	4
The long-run and intergenerational impact of early exposure to the Great Chinese Famine of 1959–61 on mental health	4
COVID-19 transmission in a resource dependent community with heterogeneous populations: An agent-based modeling approach	4
Road to perdition? The effect of illicit drug use on labour market outcomes of prime-age men in Mexico	4