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Employee well-being in the digital age: Assessing the impacts of a smartphone application in the workplace 数字时代的员工福利：评估智能手机应用程序对工作场所的影响。
IF 2.2 3区 医学
Economics & Human Biology Pub Date : 2024-11-08 DOI: 10.1016/j.ehb.2024.101445
Toshiaki Aizawa , Hiroko Okudaira , Ritsu Kitagawa , Sachiko Kuroda , Hideo Owan
{"title":"Employee well-being in the digital age: Assessing the impacts of a smartphone application in the workplace","authors":"Toshiaki Aizawa ,&nbsp;Hiroko Okudaira ,&nbsp;Ritsu Kitagawa ,&nbsp;Sachiko Kuroda ,&nbsp;Hideo Owan","doi":"10.1016/j.ehb.2024.101445","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.ehb.2024.101445","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Recently, providing smartphone-based health-improving applications to employees has emerged as a promising strategy for sustaining their well-being. This study estimates the impact of the routine use of an application, introduced in 2020 by a Japanese manufacturing company, on various health-related behaviours and outcomes among employees by exploiting a distinctive large-scale longitudinal dataset and personnel records. The analysis addresses potential selection biases arising from the non-random nature of application usage by employing the instrumental variable approach. Regular application use generates significant positive impacts on health-related habits, including moderate alcohol consumption, regular breakfast intake and refraining from eating two hours before bedtime. Furthermore, regarding physical and psychological stress, noteworthy reductions in physical burden and less frequent experiences of annoyance are observed. Employees also report a lower frequency of dizziness, headaches and palpitations, albeit an increase in the frequency of strained eyes is noted. Additionally, application use is associated with lower systolic and diastolic blood pressure, as well as decreased levels of triglycerides and gamma-GTP.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":50554,"journal":{"name":"Economics & Human Biology","volume":"55 ","pages":"Article 101445"},"PeriodicalIF":2.2,"publicationDate":"2024-11-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142640207","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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Fiscal externalities and underinvestment in early-life human capital: Optimal policy instruments for a developing country 财政外部性与生命早期人力资本投资不足：发展中国家的最佳政策工具
IF 2.2 3区 医学
Economics & Human Biology Pub Date : 2024-11-01 DOI: 10.1016/j.ehb.2024.101444
Nicholas Lawson , Dean Spears
{"title":"Fiscal externalities and underinvestment in early-life human capital: Optimal policy instruments for a developing country","authors":"Nicholas Lawson ,&nbsp;Dean Spears","doi":"10.1016/j.ehb.2024.101444","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.ehb.2024.101444","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>We study policy instruments to correct inefficiently low investment in maternal nutrition in India, where one-fifth of all births occur. We focus on fiscal externalities: healthier babies become more productive adults, who pay more tax. However, parents do not internalize this externality, which, combined with other distortions, results in mothers weighing too little during pregnancy. We calibrate the first sufficient-statistics policy model for the quantitatively important case of fiscal externalities and maternal nutrition in developing countries. The optimal subsidy is large. Yet, welfare gains are even greater from public investment in state capacity to monitor nutrition, enabling targetted incentives.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":50554,"journal":{"name":"Economics & Human Biology","volume":"55 ","pages":"Article 101444"},"PeriodicalIF":2.2,"publicationDate":"2024-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142586834","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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Teen parent trap? The education and labor implications of motherhood and fatherhood during the transition from adolescence to adulthood in Cebu, the Philippines 青少年父母陷阱？在菲律宾宿务，从青春期向成年过渡期间，母亲和父亲身份对教育和劳动的影响。
IF 2.2 3区 医学
Economics & Human Biology Pub Date : 2024-11-01 DOI: 10.1016/j.ehb.2024.101443
Kritika Sen Chakraborty , Kira M. Villa
{"title":"Teen parent trap? The education and labor implications of motherhood and fatherhood during the transition from adolescence to adulthood in Cebu, the Philippines","authors":"Kritika Sen Chakraborty ,&nbsp;Kira M. Villa","doi":"10.1016/j.ehb.2024.101443","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.ehb.2024.101443","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>For both males and females, adolescent parenthood can affect human capital investments and labor market choices during the transition from adolescence to adulthood. However, only scant evidence exists on the educational and labor implications of adolescent motherhood in developing countries and there is none on adolescent fatherhood. Using fixed effects, linear, and hazard models on a matched sample, we examine the association between early parenthood and education and labor market outcomes for a cohort of adolescents using longitudinal data from Cebu, the Philippines. While we find that early parenthood is associated with poorer educational outcomes for both teen mothers and fathers, the association is stronger for mothers. Upon becoming parents, labor market participation reduces for teen mothers but increases for teen fathers. Teen parents (both mothers and fathers) face a higher hazard of leaving school early, but teen fathers exhibit a substantially higher hazard of entering the labor market earlier. In young adulthood, conditional on working, both teen mothers and fathers are more likely to be informally employed. This paper highlights the potential gains from delaying first childbirth for adolescent males and females.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":50554,"journal":{"name":"Economics & Human Biology","volume":"55 ","pages":"Article 101443"},"PeriodicalIF":2.2,"publicationDate":"2024-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142631952","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 physical well-being of Indigenous communities in the Pacific Northwest: Anthropometric evidence from British Columbia’s jails, 1864–1913 西北太平洋地区土著社区的身体健康：1864-1913 年不列颠哥伦比亚省监狱的人体测量学证据。
IF 2.2 3区 医学
Economics & Human Biology Pub Date : 2024-10-24 DOI: 10.1016/j.ehb.2024.101442
Kris Inwood , Ian Keay
{"title":"The physical well-being of Indigenous communities in the Pacific Northwest: Anthropometric evidence from British Columbia’s jails, 1864–1913","authors":"Kris Inwood ,&nbsp;Ian Keay","doi":"10.1016/j.ehb.2024.101442","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.ehb.2024.101442","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>This paper documents the height of Indigenous men from the Pacific Northwest who were incarcerated in British Columbia’s jails during a period of colonization and increasing market access. The average height of adults from a given community reflects the standard of living in that community at the time the adults were growing to maturity. After correcting for the impact of sample selection arising from prisoners’ personal attributes, their home communities’ access to market opportunities, and unobserved height determinants associated with exposure to the colonial criminal justice system, we find that Indigenous men were positively selected into incarceration based on their height. Moreover, the tendency for the tallest men to be incarcerated became stronger over our period of study. Our results suggest that Indigenous communities in the Pacific Northwest were at a severe bioeconomic disadvantage during the nineteenth century, and their well-being did not improve as market access and colonial institutions spread through the region.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":50554,"journal":{"name":"Economics & Human Biology","volume":"55 ","pages":"Article 101442"},"PeriodicalIF":2.2,"publicationDate":"2024-10-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142565035","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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Discrimination backfires? Minority ethnic disparities in vaccine hesitancy 歧视适得其反？少数族裔在疫苗接种犹豫不决方面的差异。
IF 2.2 3区 医学
Economics & Human Biology Pub Date : 2024-10-19 DOI: 10.1016/j.ehb.2024.101441
Joan Costa-Font, Fatima Docrat
{"title":"Discrimination backfires? Minority ethnic disparities in vaccine hesitancy","authors":"Joan Costa-Font,&nbsp;Fatima Docrat","doi":"10.1016/j.ehb.2024.101441","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.ehb.2024.101441","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>A number of minority ethnic groups (MEGs) exhibited persistent reluctance to receive the COVID-19 vaccine. This paper attempts to empirically identify and validate some of the contentious behavioral determinants for vaccine hesitancy (VH) that remain unexplained including the role of risk perceptions, trust in government institutions, and prior experiences of racism and trauma. We draw on unique longitudinal data from a minority-boosted sample that was collected in the United Kingdon (UK). We document robust evidence of MEG disparities in VH, which declined between November 2020 and March 2021. While VH is associated to both historical and current distrust in government, risk beliefs, exposure to racism, and an individuals socio-economic background, these factors do not fully explain MEG disparities. Furthermore, similar patterns of inequality are observed when we examine MEG disparities in healthcare use, suggesting that disparities in VH reflect broader unobservable structural barriers to healthcare access.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":50554,"journal":{"name":"Economics & Human Biology","volume":"55 ","pages":"Article 101441"},"PeriodicalIF":2.2,"publicationDate":"2024-10-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142631951","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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Health benefits of air pollution reduction: Evidence from economic slowdown in India 减少空气污染对健康的益处：印度经济放缓的证据。
IF 2.2 3区 医学
Economics & Human Biology Pub Date : 2024-10-17 DOI: 10.1016/j.ehb.2024.101437
Olexiy Kyrychenko
{"title":"Health benefits of air pollution reduction: Evidence from economic slowdown in India","authors":"Olexiy Kyrychenko","doi":"10.1016/j.ehb.2024.101437","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.ehb.2024.101437","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>This paper evaluates health benefits associated with the impact of air pollution reduction on infant mortality in India. Leveraging plausibly exogenous geographic variation in air pollution due to the post-2010 economic slowdown—a period largely overlooked in the literature—I find that improvements in air quality resulted in a significant decline in infant mortality, particularly through respiratory diseases and biological pathways such as in utero and post-birth exposure. The associated health benefits correspond to 1338 saved infant lives, translating to monetary gains of $312.5 million. The paper advances our understanding of the link between air pollution and human health in settings with elevated air pollution and suboptimal regulatory frameworks.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":50554,"journal":{"name":"Economics & Human Biology","volume":"55 ","pages":"Article 101437"},"PeriodicalIF":2.2,"publicationDate":"2024-10-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142512271","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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Social inequalities in adult mortality across Europe (18th-21st centuries): A critical analysis of theories and evidence 欧洲成人死亡率的社会不平等（18 世纪至 21 世纪）：对理论和证据的批判性分析。
IF 2.2 3区 医学
Economics & Human Biology Pub Date : 2024-10-16 DOI: 10.1016/j.ehb.2024.101438
Víctor Antonio Luque de Haro
{"title":"Social inequalities in adult mortality across Europe (18th-21st centuries): A critical analysis of theories and evidence","authors":"Víctor Antonio Luque de Haro","doi":"10.1016/j.ehb.2024.101438","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.ehb.2024.101438","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>This study examines the historical evolution of socioeconomic disparities in adult mortality, with a focus on European societies. Despite the widespread improvements in population health, social inequalities in mortality are a pervasive phenomenon nowadays. This paper employs a critical analysis of both theoretical and empirical literature to investigate major international studies and their findings on longevity differences associated with socioeconomic status from the nineteenth century to the early twenty-first century. Findings reveal that adult mortality trajectories have differed notably across social classes and regions, with some areas exhibiting disparities before the demographic transition and others showing inequalities emerging later. Understanding these long-term health inequality trends sheds light on the changing influence of medical advances and their interplay with economic growth, educational disparities, environmental factors, state roles, and production distribution, which have shaped mortality disparities through different development stages. These factors elucidate the international heterogeneity of results until the mid-twentieth century and offer explanatory insights into observed north-south patterns in Europe. Our findings contribute to a deeper understanding of how advancements in public health, economic development, and social policies have shaped health outcomes over centuries. The implications of this research inform ongoing debates and health policy, emphasizing a nuanced interpretation of historical data to craft effective strategies that address health inequalities today.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":50554,"journal":{"name":"Economics & Human Biology","volume":"55 ","pages":"Article 101438"},"PeriodicalIF":2.2,"publicationDate":"2024-10-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142512273","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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High temperatures and traffic accident crimes: Evidence from more than 470,000 offenses in China 高温与交通事故犯罪：来自中国 47 万多起交通事故的证据。
IF 2.2 3区 医学
Economics & Human Biology Pub Date : 2024-10-15 DOI: 10.1016/j.ehb.2024.101440
Meng Wang, Shiying Zhang
{"title":"High temperatures and traffic accident crimes: Evidence from more than 470,000 offenses in China","authors":"Meng Wang,&nbsp;Shiying Zhang","doi":"10.1016/j.ehb.2024.101440","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.ehb.2024.101440","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>How does climate change affect road safety? This study examines the impacts of high temperatures on the crime of causing traffic casualties based on comprehensive data covering more than 470,000 offenses from verdicts published by Chinese courts. Using 2014–2018 city-level daily panel data, we find that a day with a daily maximum temperature above 100 °F leads to a significant 11.9 % increase in traffic accident crime compared with days with a mild temperature. Heterogeneity analyses reveal that people aged 45 and above, samples on weekdays, and samples in regions with high population densities are more vulnerable to the effects of extreme heat. More importantly, we find no lagged or cumulative effects and little evidence of adaptation. Finally, by using traffic congestion index data, we observe that drivers can engage in avoidance behavior on hot days, suggesting that our estimates may provide a lower bound on the effect of extreme heat on traffic accident crime.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":50554,"journal":{"name":"Economics & Human Biology","volume":"55 ","pages":"Article 101440"},"PeriodicalIF":2.2,"publicationDate":"2024-10-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142512272","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 fattening speed: Understanding the impact of internet speed on obesity, and the mediating role of sedentary behaviour 发胖的速度：了解网速对肥胖的影响以及久坐行为的中介作用
IF 2.2 3区 医学
Economics & Human Biology Pub Date : 2024-10-13 DOI: 10.1016/j.ehb.2024.101439
Michelle I-Hsuan Lin , Sefa Awaworyi Churchill , Klaus Ackermann
{"title":"The fattening speed: Understanding the impact of internet speed on obesity, and the mediating role of sedentary behaviour","authors":"Michelle I-Hsuan Lin ,&nbsp;Sefa Awaworyi Churchill ,&nbsp;Klaus Ackermann","doi":"10.1016/j.ehb.2024.101439","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.ehb.2024.101439","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>We examine the impact of access to high-speed internet on obesity. Using 14 waves of longitudinal data from the Household, Income and Labour Dynamics in Australia (HILDA) survey and a newly constructed dataset on the rollout and adoption rate of the National Broadband Network (NBN) across Australian postcodes, we find that access to high-speed internet has a positive effect on obesity. Specifically, our preferred instrumental variable estimates, which predict the variation in timing and location of internet access upgrades, suggest that a 1 % increase in the proportion of a postcode that has access to NBN is associated with a 1.573 increase in Body Mass Index and a 6.6 percentage point increase in the probability of being obese. These results are robust to several checks and alternative specifications. We also find that sedentary behaviour and inactivity are mechanisms through which access to high-speed internet transmits to obesity.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":50554,"journal":{"name":"Economics & Human Biology","volume":"55 ","pages":"Article 101439"},"PeriodicalIF":2.2,"publicationDate":"2024-10-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142445519","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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What is the relationship between risk attitudes and ambient temperature? Evidence from a large population-based cohort study 风险态度与环境温度之间有什么关系？一项大型人群队列研究提供的证据。
IF 2.2 3区 医学
Economics & Human Biology Pub Date : 2024-09-27 DOI: 10.1016/j.ehb.2024.101436
Adriana N. König , Michael Laxy , Annette Peters , Alexandra Schneider , Kathrin Wolf , Lars Schwettmann , Daniel Wiesen
{"title":"What is the relationship between risk attitudes and ambient temperature? Evidence from a large population-based cohort study","authors":"Adriana N. König ,&nbsp;Michael Laxy ,&nbsp;Annette Peters ,&nbsp;Alexandra Schneider ,&nbsp;Kathrin Wolf ,&nbsp;Lars Schwettmann ,&nbsp;Daniel Wiesen","doi":"10.1016/j.ehb.2024.101436","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.ehb.2024.101436","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Rising temperatures affect human behavior and risk-taking in several domains. However, it is not yet well understood just how ambient temperature shapes risk attitudes. Using data from the large population-based KORA-Fit study (Cooperative Health Research in the Region of Augsburg) of older people (<span><math><mi>N</mi></math></span>=2454), we identify a statistically significant, but very small, positive association between short-term ambient temperature changes and individuals’ general willingness to take risks. Health-related risk attitudes, however, show no significant relationship with temperature. These findings support a domain-specific view of risk attitudes, with results remaining consistent for vulnerable individuals with the chronic conditions diabetes, hypertension, and asthma. Overall, our findings suggest that risk attitudes are somewhat stable towards changes in ambient temperature.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":50554,"journal":{"name":"Economics & Human Biology","volume":"55 ","pages":"Article 101436"},"PeriodicalIF":2.2,"publicationDate":"2024-09-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142376275","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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