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Are preadolescent and adolescent physical growth failures related to poorer adolescent cognitive and socioemotional skills in Ethiopia, India, Peru, and Vietnam? 在埃塞俄比亚、印度、秘鲁和越南，青春期前和青春期身体发育失败是否与较差的青少年认知和社会情感技能有关？

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Economics & Human Biology Pub Date : 2025-05-01 DOI: 10.1016/j.ehb.2025.101493

Le Thuc Duc , Jere R. Behrman

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Obesity And Cash Rewards 肥胖与现金奖励

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Economics & Human Biology Pub Date : 2025-05-01 DOI: 10.1016/j.ehb.2025.101492

Boris Augurzky , Thomas K. Bauer , Arndt R. Reichert , Christoph M. Schmidt , Harald Tauchmann

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Bridging the pulse: Exploring inequalities in diabetes and hypertension medication prescriptions in Spain’s immigrant and native communities 弥合脉搏：探索不平等的糖尿病和高血压药物处方在西班牙移民和土著社区

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Economics & Human Biology Pub Date : 2025-04-12 DOI: 10.1016/j.ehb.2025.101489

Luigi Boggian , Joan E. Madia , Catia Nicodemo

{"title":"Bridging the pulse: Exploring inequalities in diabetes and hypertension medication prescriptions in Spain’s immigrant and native communities","authors":"Luigi Boggian , Joan E. Madia , Catia Nicodemo","doi":"10.1016/j.ehb.2025.101489","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.ehb.2025.101489","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Migrants often face barriers in accessing high quality healthcare, leading to unequal treatment. This research investigates the disparities in medication utilization for cardiovascular risk factors between immigrant and native-born populations in Spain. The study specifically examines differences in drug prescriptions for managing diabetes and hypertension, two key contributors to cardiovascular disease. We analyze administrative healthcare records to examine the probability of patients receiving prescriptions for antidiabetic and antihypertensive medications. Additionally, we assess the likelihood of patients undergoing tests to measure glycated hemoglobin levels and blood pressure, two crucial indicators for monitoring diabetes and hypertension management.The analysis is stratified across different levels of medical needs, by also controlling for individual socioeconomic status, physician diagnoses, biometric data and primary care centers fixed effects. The findings reveal that all immigrant groups have lower probabilities of being prescribed medications for diabetes and hypertension and this is especially true for people with higher levels of healthcare needs. These findings underscore the importance of addressing healthcare disparities to achieve more equitable outcomes for immigrant communities.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":50554,"journal":{"name":"Economics & Human Biology","volume":"57 ","pages":"Article 101489"},"PeriodicalIF":2.2,"publicationDate":"2025-04-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143833349","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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Internet use and physical and mental health in old age during the COVID-19 pandemic: Evidence from partners in SHARE 在 COVID-19 大流行期间，互联网的使用与老年人的身心健康：来自 SHARE 合作伙伴的证据

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Economics & Human Biology Pub Date : 2025-04-11 DOI: 10.1016/j.ehb.2025.101487

Gianmaria Niccodemi , Alessandra Gaia , Mino Novello , David Consolazio

{"title":"Internet use and physical and mental health in old age during the COVID-19 pandemic: Evidence from partners in SHARE","authors":"Gianmaria Niccodemi , Alessandra Gaia , Mino Novello , David Consolazio","doi":"10.1016/j.ehb.2025.101487","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.ehb.2025.101487","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Using data from the Survey of Health, Ageing and Retirement in Europe (SHARE), we investigate whether individuals aged 65 and older who were internet users prior to the COVID-19 pandemic experienced better physical and mental health, during the pandemic, than age peers who did not use the internet. We consider three health outcomes: self-reported health, overweight/obesity and depression. To account for household-shared determinants of health and reverse causality, we estimate household fixed effects regressions on samples of individuals grouped into households of cohabiting partners who exhibited identical pre-pandemic health outcomes. On average, our estimates point towards a non-significant effect of internet use on all health outcomes. The probability of depression varied by age: pre-pandemic internet users in the age-range 65-70 were more likely to experience depression, whereas those aged over 80 were less likely to be depressed, compared to internet nonusers in the same age-range. Moreover, we find that, among older pre-pandemic internet nonusers, those with stronger social ties had better access to remote medical consultations during the pandemic; this result suggests that social capital may play a protective role and may contribute to bridging the digital divide. We conclude that, although internet use holds significant potential benefits for older adults, its impact, particularly on mental health, is complex and multifaceted. Future interventions should be tailored to address these nuances, promoting beneficial uses of digital technology while mitigating its adverse effects.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":50554,"journal":{"name":"Economics & Human Biology","volume":"57 ","pages":"Article 101487"},"PeriodicalIF":2.2,"publicationDate":"2025-04-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143851556","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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The effect of New York State’s Paid Family and Medical Leave Program on birth outcomes 纽约州的带薪家庭和医疗休假计划对生育结果的影响

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Economics & Human Biology Pub Date : 2025-04-11 DOI: 10.1016/j.ehb.2025.101490

Katherine Engel, Taryn W. Morrissey

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The impact of individuals’ preventive behaviours on health and healthcare utilisation 个人预防行为对健康和医疗使用的影响

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Economics & Human Biology Pub Date : 2025-04-03 DOI: 10.1016/j.ehb.2025.101486

Aarushi Dhingra , Gianluca Fiorentini , Luke Connelly

{"title":"The impact of individuals’ preventive behaviours on health and healthcare utilisation","authors":"Aarushi Dhingra , Gianluca Fiorentini , Luke Connelly","doi":"10.1016/j.ehb.2025.101486","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.ehb.2025.101486","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>We investigate the impact of preventative health behaviour of an individual, colon screening, on health outcomes and healthcare utilisation. We employ an instrumental variable approach to address the circularity in this relationship, using eye examination as our instrument. Our instrument exploits the fact that individuals who comply with recommendations or exhibit positive health behaviours tend to cluster and comply with recommendations for other positive health behaviours as well. We use two-stage least square regressions using data from the Survey of Health, Ageing and Retirement in Europe. The results show that undertaking colon screening increases the probability of hospitalisations, especially those that are planned. It also leads to an increase in the probability of a diagnosis of cancer and colon cancer, while reducing the probability of death in the subsequent period. Heterogeneity checks provide evidence that these results are driven mostly by females, unmarried individuals, people with more than two co-morbidities and people with lower education and income. The results highlight the need to promote targeted information and preventive medicine to enhance early detection of cancer which may increase the probability of survival, and reduce avoidable burden on the healthcare system, especially, amongst the vulnerable groups.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":50554,"journal":{"name":"Economics & Human Biology","volume":"57 ","pages":"Article 101486"},"PeriodicalIF":2.2,"publicationDate":"2025-04-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143776871","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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Towering Intellects? Sizing up the relationship between height and academic success 高耸的智力吗?评估身高和学业成绩之间的关系

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Economics & Human Biology Pub Date : 2025-03-28 DOI: 10.1016/j.ehb.2025.101488

Stephanie Coffey , Amy Ellen Schwartz

{"title":"Towering Intellects? Sizing up the relationship between height and academic success","authors":"Stephanie Coffey , Amy Ellen Schwartz","doi":"10.1016/j.ehb.2025.101488","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.ehb.2025.101488","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Do tall students do better in school? A robust literature documents higher earnings among taller people and suggests that differences in adult labor market outcomes may reflect prior differences in academic outcomes. In this paper, we use unique student-level longitudinal data from New York City (NYC) to examine the link between height and achievement, shedding light on underlying mechanisms. The centerpiece of our empirical work is a regression linking test scores to height, measured as a z-score normalized to same grade/sex peers within schools. We estimate a meaningful height gradient for both boys and girls in English Language Arts (ELA) and math achievement in all grades 3–8. Controlling for observed student characteristics, a one standard deviation (sd) increase in height for grade is associated with .03 and .039 sd higher performance in math and ELA, respectively, for boys and .034 and .04 sd in math and ELA, respectively, for girls. While the average gradient is small in magnitude, it is sufficiently large to generate meaningful differences in achievement between the tallest and shortest students. For example, the tallest 2.5 % boys and girls within grade perform .18 and .194 sd better in ELA, respectively, than the shortest ones. We also find evidence that ordinal height rank relative to peers may have a small effect on ELA achievement conditional on cardinal height. Thus, there is an academic height premium for both absolute and relative height.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":50554,"journal":{"name":"Economics & Human Biology","volume":"57 ","pages":"Article 101488"},"PeriodicalIF":2.2,"publicationDate":"2025-03-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143792203","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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The impact of extreme high temperatures on ADRD hospitalization in Guangdong, China, 2017–2019 2017-2019年中国广东省极端高温对ADRD住院的影响

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Economics & Human Biology Pub Date : 2025-03-17 DOI: 10.1016/j.ehb.2025.101485

Caiyi Zhao , Xin Zhang , Chao Ma , Wei Xu

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Second generation effects of an experimental conditional cash transfer program on early childhood human capital in Nicaragua 尼加拉瓜有条件现金转移实验计划对幼儿人力资本的第二代影响

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Economics & Human Biology Pub Date : 2025-03-17 DOI: 10.1016/j.ehb.2025.101483

Tania Barham , Oscar M. Díaz-Botía , Karen Macours , John A. Maluccio , Julieta Vera Rueda

{"title":"Second generation effects of an experimental conditional cash transfer program on early childhood human capital in Nicaragua","authors":"Tania Barham , Oscar M. Díaz-Botía , Karen Macours , John A. Maluccio , Julieta Vera Rueda","doi":"10.1016/j.ehb.2025.101483","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.ehb.2025.101483","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Interventions targeting improvements in human capital are often motivated by their potential to break the intergenerational transmission of poverty from parents to children. This study contributes to the thin evidence base on these links by examining outcomes for children of former program beneficiaries of a conditional cash transfer (CCT) program, capitalizing on randomized variation in the timing and CCT’s impact on maternal human capital. We estimate intent-to-treat (ITT) differential effects on early childhood anthropometric and cognitive outcomes for 0–3-year-old children of program beneficiaries [N=366], as well as effects on key domains including nutrition, health, stimulation and the home environment. We find that moderately higher schooling for mothers (19–22 years old) who were the original program beneficiaries did not translate into improvements in anthropometrics or cognitive outcomes for their children. We also find no effects on behaviors commonly thought to be affected by higher education such as investments in nutrition and preventive health, or stimulation. Early program beneficiary mothers, however, had worse mental health outcomes and were more likely to use violent disciplinary practices such as spanking, threatening and punishing. Findings demonstrate the complexity of intergenerational mechanisms across genetic, biological, environmental and behavioral factors, and also suggest the importance of maternal mental health as a mechanism influencing child outcomes.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":50554,"journal":{"name":"Economics & Human Biology","volume":"57 ","pages":"Article 101483"},"PeriodicalIF":2.2,"publicationDate":"2025-03-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143704240","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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Changes in child height and open defecation in rural India: Understanding improvements between the two most recent demographic surveys 印度农村儿童身高和露天排便的变化：了解最近两次人口调查之间的改善

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Economics & Human Biology Pub Date : 2025-03-15 DOI: 10.1016/j.ehb.2025.101484

Sangita Vyas , Anna Vera

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