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

Article	Citations
Cognitive or non-cognitive? The effect of maternal dominance on adolescent human capital: Evidence from adolescents' educational decisions	48
Vulnerability and COVID-19 infection rates: A changing relationship during the first year of the pandemic	38
Long-term exposure to ambient PM2.5 and population health: evidence from linked census data	26
Health insurance, labor market shocks, and mental health during the first year of the COVID-19 crisis	24
In and out of unemployment—Labour market transitions and the role of testosterone	22
The demand for a COVID-19 vaccine	21
COVID-19, deaths at home and end-of-life cancer care	21
The challenge of estimating the direct and indirect effects of COVID-19 interventions – Toward an integrated economic and epidemiological approach	20
Heterogeneous impacts of climate change on morbidity	20
The causal impact of fetal exposure to PM2.5 on birth outcomes: Evidence from rural China	19
People versus machines: The impact of being in an automatable job on Australian worker’s mental health and life satisfaction	18
The impact of obesity on human capital accumulation: Exploring the driving factors	18
People inflows as a pandemic trigger: Evidence from a quasi-experimental study	17
The mitigating effect of masks on the spread of Covid-19	17
Does searching online for vaccination information affect vaccination coverage? Evidence from Sub-Saharan African countries	17
More Than a Ban on Smoking? Behavioural Spillovers of Smoking Bans in the Workplace	16
Social inequalities in adult mortality across Europe (18th-21st centuries): A critical analysis of theories and evidence	16
Convincing the “Herd” of immunity: Lessons from smallpox vaccination in 19th century Germany	15
The effect of “smoky” coal bans on chronic lung disease among older people in Ireland	14
The sorting effect in healthcare access: Those left behind	14
Decoupling genetics from attainments: The role of social environments	14
Wrong place, wrong time: The long-run effects of in-utero exposure to malaria on educational attainment	13
Predicting depression in old age: Combining life course data with machine learning	13
Health welfare in the digital era: Exploring the impact of digital trade on residents' health	13
Fertility and immigration: Do immigrant mothers hand down their fertility pattern to the next generation? Evidence from Norway	13

Secular change in heights of rural adults in west-central poland between 1986 and 2016: The transition from pre- to post-communism	13
A copula-based approach for creating an index of micronutrient intakes at household level in Pakistan	13
The fattening speed: Understanding the impact of internet speed on obesity, and the mediating role of sedentary behaviour	12
The impact of biomedical innovation on cancer mortality in 37 countries, 2003–2017	12
Valuing mortality attributable to present and future temperature extremes in Argentina	12
International travel in times of the COVID-19 pandemic: The case of German school breaks	11
The long-run effects of adolescent athletic participation on women’s health	11
War in Ukraine – Changing the Polish paediatric population as a consequence of forced migration (a preliminary study)	11
Intergenerational coresidence and the Covid-19 pandemic in the United States	11
Having exams during Ramadan: The case of Indonesia	11
Obesity inequality and well-being in Germany	10
Early socioeconomic status, social mobility and cognitive trajectories in later life: A life course perspective	10
Heterogeneity in disease resistance and the impact of antibiotics in the US	10
Air pollution and health of working-age population: Evidence from thermal inversion	9
Obesity And Cash Rewards	9
The effects of social capital deprivation for wellbeing: Evidence from the Covid-19 pandemic	9
Educational burden reduction, educational inequality, and enrollment pressure: Evidence from China	9
Severe prenatal shocks and adolescent health: Evidence from the Dutch Hunger Winter	9
Deforestation and child health in Cambodia	8
Living standards in settler South Africa, 1865–1920	8
Income insecurity and mental health in pandemic times	8
A comment on “Treatment design, health outcomes, and demographic categories in the literature on minimum wages and health.”	8
Born to be wild: Second-to-fourth digit length ratio and risk preferences	8
Parental gender preferences over three centuries: Evidence from Argentina	8
Soda expansion in the tropics: The effect on obesity rates among women without piped water at home	8
Workplace autonomy and mental health	8
The height premium: A systematic review and meta-analysis	8
State dependence in immunization and the role of discouragement	8
The geography of healthcare: Mapping patient flow and medical resource allocation in China	7
The intergenerational legacy of the 1959–1961 Great Chinese Famine on children’s cognitive development	7
Editorial Board	7
Gender inequality in nutrition intake: Evidence from a large assistance program	7
Unconditional cash transfers, health and savings	7
The impact of informal and formal care disruption on older adults’ psychological distress during the COVID-19 pandemic in UK	7
Assessing the impact of fostering on children’s outcomes in Niger	7
Exploring the hidden impact of the Covid-19 pandemic: The role of urbanization	7
Auspicious years, the birth of girls, and their birth outcomes	7
Are stunted child – overweight mother pairs a real defined entity or a statistical artifact?	7
Stunting and wasting in a growing economy: biological living standards in Portugal during the twentieth century	7
Digital transformation: The role of computer use in employee health	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
De-normalizing smoking in urban areas: Public smoking bans and smoking prevalence	7
Economic development, intergenerational mobility, and health in South Korea	6
The effects of taxation on the individual consumption of sugar-sweetened beverages	6
Adolescent girls’ empowerment policy, health awareness, and decision-making: Evidence from the SABLA program in India	6
Influence of poverty concerns on demand for healthier processed foods: A field experiment in Mexico City	6
The impact of a malaria elimination initiative on school outcomes: Evidence from Southern Mozambique	6
From pandemic to endemic: Spatial-temporal patterns of influenza-like illness incidence in a Swiss canton, 1918–1924	6
Temperature exposure and sleep duration: Evidence from time use surveys	6

Sweet or not: Using information and cognitive dissonance to nudge children toward healthier food choices	6
Health, income, and the preston curve: A long view	6
Depression and labor supply: Evidence from the Netherlands	6
Editorial Board	6
The value of extending healthy life expectancy: A framework for healthcare policy evaluation	6
Effects of welfare reform on household food insecurity across generations	6
Employer-sponsored health insurance and labor market outcomes for men in same-sex couples: Evidence from the advent of pre-exposure prophylaxis	6
Old age takes its toll: Long-run projections of health-related public expenditure in Luxembourg	6
Employee well-being in the digital age: Assessing the impacts of a smartphone application in the workplace	6
The “Quiet Revolution” and the cesarean section in the United States	6
The impacts of the Free Semester program on students’ exam nervousness	6
The origins of cognitive skills and non-cognitive skills: The long-term effect of in-utero rainfall shocks in India	6
Child health inequality in Sub-Saharan Africa	5
How do basic income for elderly affect health of self-employed?	5
Is household shock a boon or bane to the utilisation of preventive healthcare for children? Evidence from Uganda	5
Exposure to wildfires and health outcomes of vulnerable people: Evidence from US data	5
The gender wage gap across life: Effects of genetic predisposition towards higher educational attainment	5
Responses in child health to concerted reconstruction efforts in the aftermath of the 2016 earthquake in Ecuador	5
Editorial Board	5
In the eye of the storm. Long-term impact of the Covid-19 pandemic on healthcare utilization in Lombardy	5
Daylight duration and time allocation of children and adolescents	5
Education and COVID-19 excess mortality	5
Growing up in a growing economy. Reassessing changes in biological living standards in Portugal during the twentieth century	5
Shattered ground, shaken minds: Mental health consequences of earthquakes	5
Empowering women, enhancing diets: The impact of women’s bargaining power on dietary quality in urban China	5
Time preference and nutrition label use: Evidence from China	5
Pain trends and pain growth disparities, 2009–2021	5
Trust predicts compliance with COVID-19 containment policies: Evidence from ten countries using big data	5
Harder being left behind: Health status of Indian women from migrant households	5
The “Long-arm” of chronic conditions in childhood: Evidence from Canada using linked survey-administrative data	5
Women’s age at marriage and obesity in Pakistan	5
Elections have (health) consequences: Depression, anxiety, and the 2020 presidential election	5
Social homogeneity and spread of pandemic: Evidence from India	5
Bodyweight and human capital development: Assessing the impact of obesity on socioemotional skills during childhood in Chile	5