Samuel Asare
Samuel Asare
This study uses data from the 1987-2022 Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System and state-level employment rates from the US Bureau of Labor Statistics to estimate the association between macroeconomic conditions and cigarette smoking. O...
Race, immunity, and lifespan: Unraveling the effect of early-life exposure to malaria risk on lifespan [0.03%]
_race、免疫力和寿命：解开生命早期接触疟疾风险对寿命的影响_
Sok Chul Hong,Inhyuk Hwang
Sok Chul Hong
We investigate a historical experience to measure the long-term effect of malaria on lifespan among infected survivors and identify a factor that mitigates malaria's effect. Using a sample of Union Army veterans born during the mid-19th cen...
Does facial structure explain differences in student evaluations of teaching? The role of fWHR as a proxy for perceived dominance [0.03%]
面部结构能解释学生对教师评价的差异吗？fWHR作为感知支配地位代理的作用
Valentina Paredes,Francisco J Pino,David Díaz
Valentina Paredes
Dominance is usually viewed as a positive male attribute, but this is not typically the case for women. Using a novel dataset of student evaluations of teaching in a school of Business and Economics of a selective university, we construct t...
Hyunkuk Cho
Hyunkuk Cho
Left-digit bias is a cognitive bias wherein individuals assess the magnitude of numbers by emphasizing the leftmost digit. For instance, people often perceive the difference between $9.99 and $10.00 larger than that between $10.00 and $10.0...
The effect of actual and expected income shocks on mental wellbeing: Evidence from three East Asian countries during COVID-19 [0.03%]
实际和预期的收入冲击对心理健康的影響——COVID-19期间东亚三国的证据
Akbar Zamanzadeh,Tony Cavoli,Matina Ghasemi et al.
Akbar Zamanzadeh et al.
This paper evaluates the effects of economic shocks to current and expected income reduction on mental wellbeing. We use individual-level data from three East Asian countries; China, Japan, and South Korea, during the early phases of the pa...
Severe prenatal shocks and adolescent health: Evidence from the Dutch Hunger Winter [0.03%]
严重宫内不良刺激与青少年健康：来自荷兰饥饿冬季的证据
Gabriella Conti,Stavros Poupakis,Peter Ekamper et al.
Gabriella Conti et al.
This paper investigates health impacts at the end of adolescence of prenatal exposure to multiple shocks, by exploiting the unique natural experiment of the Dutch Hunger Winter. At the end of World War II, a famine occurred abruptly in the ...
Beyond the brink: Unraveling the opioid crisis and its profound impacts [0.03%]
拨乱反正：解开阿片类药物危机及其深远影响的秘密
Xianhua Zai
Xianhua Zai
This paper examines the long-standing and severe public health crisis, the opioid epidemic in the United States, which has been worsening since the mid-1990s. In contrast to previous research, it investigates the broader impacts of this epi...
The causal impact of fetal exposure to PM2.5 on birth outcomes: Evidence from rural China [0.03%]
中国农村地区PM2.5污染的胎内效应研究：基于准自然实验的因果影响估计
Lyuxiu Li,Xin Zhang
Lyuxiu Li
This paper investigates the causal impact of fetal exposure to PM2.5 on birth outcomes, including birth weight, the incidence of low birth weight (LBW), and small for gestational age (SGA), based on a nationally representative birth record ...
A comment on "Height and the standard of living in Puerto Rico from the Spanish Enlightenment to annexation by the United States, 1770-1924" [0.03%]
关于“从西班牙启蒙运动到并入美国时期波多黎各的身高和生活水平（1770-1924）”的一条评论
Brian Marein,John Devereux
Brian Marein
Using prisoner height data, Moreno-Lázaro (2023) claims that Puerto Rican living standards declined after US annexation and stagnated for decades. This conclusion is not supported by the prisoner data and is inconsistent with other welfare...
Secular change in heights of rural adults in west-central poland between 1986 and 2016: The transition from pre- to post-communism [0.03%]
波兰西中央地区农村成年人身高的长期变化（1986-2016）：从中共时期到后中共时期的转变
Sylwia Bartowiak,Jan M Konarski,Ryszard Strzelczyk et al.
Sylwia Bartowiak et al.
Secular change in the heights of adult men and women resident in ten rural communities in west-central Poland in four decennial surveys between 1986 and 2016 is considered. The adults were parents of children attending schools in rural comm...