Chenxuan Chen,Qi Wang
Chenxuan Chen
Obesity rates have surged in recent years, particularly in developing countries, yet key drivers remain inadequately understood. We identify short videos as a novel and significant determinant of obesity. We use China Family Panel Studies (...
Self-employment, health, and health care: When the going gets tough, the tough gets going? [0.03%]
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Clémentine Garrouste,Alain Paraponaris,Nicolas Sirven
Clémentine Garrouste
This study provides a life-course analysis of the relationship between self-employment, health, and health care use among individuals aged 50 and older in Europe. Using data from the Survey of Health, Ageing, and Retirement in Europe (SHARE...
In the shadow of a pandemic: Informality and COVID-19 diffusion in Europe [0.03%]
新冠疫情下的欧洲非正规就业问题及其应对措施研究
Vincenzo Alfano
Vincenzo Alfano
This article investigates whether the shadow economy influenced the diffusion of COVID-19 during the first wave in Europe. Using a hybrid econometric model and data from 26 European countries, we test the hypothesis that larger informal sec...
Tallys Kalynka Feldens,Victor Rodrigues de Oliveira
Tallys Kalynka Feldens
Background: Newborn health effects from climate change are a serious threat to the future generations. However, little is known about its estimates for Brazil, a country which still struggles with deep inequalities and po...
Corrigendum to "The impact of Long-term Care Insurance on household income inequality: Evidence from China" [Econ. Hum. Biol. 59 (2025) 101519] [0.03%]
关于“长期护理保险对中国家庭收入不平等的影响：来自中国的证据”的勘误修正[Econ.Hum.Biol.59(2025)101519]
Yuanyuan Chi,Qiang Zhang
Yuanyuan Chi
Published Erratum
Economics and human biology. 2025 Dec 9:101549. DOI:10.1016/j.ehb.2025.101549 2025
Growing up in a growing economy. Reassessing changes in biological living standards in Portugal during the twentieth century [0.03%]
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Hugo F V Cardoso,Nicola J Murray
Hugo F V Cardoso
This paper explores the assumptions about sample representativeness and provides a re-analysis of the data utilized by Cermeño and co-workers (2023a) to examine changes in the biological standards of living in Portugal over the 20th centur...
Air pollution and health of working-age population: Evidence from thermal inversion [0.03%]
热逆温下的空气污染与劳动人口健康关系研究
Shijun You,Shin-Yi Chou
Shijun You
Despite the significant impact of air pollution on public health, its causal effects on a national scale have not been extensively studied. In this paper, we examine the impact of PM2.5 on adult health in the United States using data from t...
Measuring and testing vulnerability to food insecurity for prediction and targeting [0.03%]
用于预测和瞄准的粮食不安全脆弱性的测量与检验
Marco Letta,Pierluigi Montalbano,Cristian Morales Opazo et al.
Marco Letta et al.
Taking advantage of the exogenous nature of the COVID-19 shock, we present an empirical test to assess the validity of theory-based methods for targeting household vulnerability to food insecurity. Specifically, we test the performance of a...
State level differences in life expectancy and lifespan inequality: Is it a matter of socioeconomic inequalities? [0.03%]
预期寿命和寿命不平等的州级差异：这是社会经济不平等的问题吗？
M D J W Wijesinghe,Michael P Cameron,Susan Olivia et al.
M D J W Wijesinghe et al.
Lifespan inequality refers to the variation in the age at which people die or the uncertainty surrounding the time of their death. This study investigates the patterns of lifespan inequality at the state level in the United States between 1...
The effect of cash transfers on maternal health seeking: Evidence from Ecuador [0.03%]
现金转移对产妇寻求医疗保健的影响：来自厄瓜多尔的证据
Daniel Maggio,Jack Cavanagh
Daniel Maggio
Governments often aim to increase health service uptake using financial incentives. In the case of maternal healthcare, where the quality gradient between informal and formal care is quite steep, these incentives have the potential to impro...