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Smoking to your kids gain? Childhood exposure to parental smoking and obesity 给你的孩子吸烟？儿童时期受到父母吸烟和肥胖的影响。
IF 2.2 3区 医学
Economics & Human Biology Pub Date : 2025-02-01 DOI: 10.1016/j.ehb.2025.101473
Kushneel Prakash , Sanjesh Kumar
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The long-run and intergenerational impact of early exposure to the Great Chinese Famine of 1959–61 on mental health 早期接触1959-61年中国大饥荒对心理健康的长期和代际影响。
IF 2.2 3区 医学
Economics & Human Biology Pub Date : 2025-02-01 DOI: 10.1016/j.ehb.2024.101461
Chih Ming Tan , Xiaobo Zhang , Xin Zhang
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Height self-selection of internal migrants in Italy in the second half of the twentieth century 20世纪下半叶意大利内部移民的身高自我选择。
IF 2.2 3区 医学
Economics & Human Biology Pub Date : 2025-02-01 DOI: 10.1016/j.ehb.2024.101465
Donatella Lanari , Andrea Crippa , Luca Pieroni
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Religiosity, attitudes toward science, and public health: Evidence from Finland 宗教信仰、对科学的态度和公共健康：来自芬兰的证据。
IF 2.2 3区 医学
Economics & Human Biology Pub Date : 2025-02-01 DOI: 10.1016/j.ehb.2024.101460
Ioannis Laliotis , Evangelos Mourelatos , Joona Lohtander
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Too busy with the “rat race” to have kids? Longitudinal evidence on the impact of peer grit on the fertility of reproductive-age women in China 忙于“激烈的竞争”而没有时间生孩子？同伴勇气对中国育龄妇女生育能力影响的纵向证据。
IF 2.2 3区 医学
Economics & Human Biology Pub Date : 2025-02-01 DOI: 10.1016/j.ehb.2025.101470
Haiyang Lu , Keya Zeng , Weiliang Hu
{"title":"Too busy with the “rat race” to have kids? Longitudinal evidence on the impact of peer grit on the fertility of reproductive-age women in China","authors":"Haiyang Lu ,&nbsp;Keya Zeng ,&nbsp;Weiliang Hu","doi":"10.1016/j.ehb.2025.101470","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.ehb.2025.101470","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>China is currently facing a notable decline in fertility rates. This research introduces a novel perspective on the factors influencing fertility among women of reproductive age, representing the first attempt to examine the impact of peer grit on female fertility. Analyzing nationally representative panel data from China and leveraging plausibly exogenous variations in peer exposure across cohorts, we find that peer grit is associated with a reduction in fertility behavior and intentions. The negative effects of peer grit are robust across alternative measures of core metrics and estimation techniques addressing endogeneity concerns. Additionally, our findings suggest that the influence of peer grit on women’s fertility behavior and intentions may be mediated by changes in educational attainment and employment stability, operating through a mechanism known as the demonstration effect.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":50554,"journal":{"name":"Economics & Human Biology","volume":"56 ","pages":"Article 101470"},"PeriodicalIF":2.2,"publicationDate":"2025-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143015704","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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Workplace autonomy and mental health 工作场所自主和心理健康
IF 2.2 3区 医学
Economics & Human Biology Pub Date : 2025-02-01 DOI: 10.1016/j.ehb.2025.101469
Joe Spearing
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The gender wage gap across life: Effects of genetic predisposition towards higher educational attainment 终身性别工资差距：遗传倾向对高等教育程度的影响。
IF 2.2 3区 医学
Economics & Human Biology Pub Date : 2025-02-01 DOI: 10.1016/j.ehb.2025.101471
Alex Bryson, Tim Morris, David Bann, David Wilkinson
{"title":"The gender wage gap across life: Effects of genetic predisposition towards higher educational attainment","authors":"Alex Bryson,&nbsp;Tim Morris,&nbsp;David Bann,&nbsp;David Wilkinson","doi":"10.1016/j.ehb.2025.101471","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.ehb.2025.101471","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Using two polygenic scores (PGS) for educational attainment in a biomedical study of all those born in a single week in Great Britain in 1958 we show that the genetic predisposition for educational attainment is associated with labour market participation and wages over the life-course for men and women. Those with a higher PGS spend more time in employment and full-time employment and, when in employment, earn higher hourly wages. The employment associations are four times larger for women than for men. Conditional on employment, the PGS wage associations are sizeable, persistent and similar for men and women through to age 55. A one standard deviation increase in the PGS is associated with a 5–10 log point increase in hourly earnings. The size of the association is a little smaller for men aged 23. These associations are robust to non-random selection into employment and to controls for parental education. Between one-quarter and one-half of the PGS association with time in employment, and one-third to one-half of the PGS association with earnings, are mediated via educational attainment. Our results suggest that genetic endowments of a cohort born a half century ago continued to play a significant role in their fortunes in the labor market of the 21st Century.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":50554,"journal":{"name":"Economics & Human Biology","volume":"56 ","pages":"Article 101471"},"PeriodicalIF":2.2,"publicationDate":"2025-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143069319","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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Height development trends among 7–18-year-old school-age children in central plains of China between 2000 and 2019: A serial cross-sectional surveillance study in China 2000 - 2019年中原地区7-18岁学龄儿童身高发展趋势：中国连续横断面监测研究
IF 2.2 3区 医学
Economics & Human Biology Pub Date : 2025-02-01 DOI: 10.1016/j.ehb.2024.101467
Fanke Zhou , Lifan Ding , Yuxi Li , Jiajia Hu , Junna Zhang , Yixiao Geng , Xiaolei Ban , Wencan Wu , Xiaomin Lou , Xian Wang
{"title":"Height development trends among 7–18-year-old school-age children in central plains of China between 2000 and 2019: A serial cross-sectional surveillance study in China","authors":"Fanke Zhou ,&nbsp;Lifan Ding ,&nbsp;Yuxi Li ,&nbsp;Jiajia Hu ,&nbsp;Junna Zhang ,&nbsp;Yixiao Geng ,&nbsp;Xiaolei Ban ,&nbsp;Wencan Wu ,&nbsp;Xiaomin Lou ,&nbsp;Xian Wang","doi":"10.1016/j.ehb.2024.101467","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.ehb.2024.101467","url":null,"abstract":"<div><h3>Objective</h3><div>The aim of this study was to analyze changes in height of 7–18-year-old school-age children in China during the year of 2000–2019.</div></div><div><h3>Methods</h3><div>We used the survey data from the Chinese National Survey on Students’ Constitution and Health in Henan Province for the years 2000, 2005, 2010, 2014, and 2019. Data were categorized into subgroups based on geographic location, gender, and age; mean, standard deviation, and Pearson's correlation coefficient were used to analyze trends in height change among children and adolescents and the correlation between socioeconomic indicators and height change.</div></div><div><h3>Results</h3><div>The height of children and adolescents in Henan has shown a continuous upward trend. The height difference between urban and rural areas has gradually narrowed but has not disappeared. The correlation of height development trends between neighbouring urban areas was higher than in other areas. The level of medical care was significantly associated with the change in height for both boys (r = 0.950, p = 0.013) and girls (r = 0.897, p = 0.039); GDP per capita (r = 0.940，p = 0.018) was significantly associated with the change in height for boys only.</div></div><div><h3>Conclusion</h3><div>The height of Chinese children and adolescents will continue to maintain a positive growth trend, but we need to pay attention to the health status and nutritional intake of children and adolescents in economically disadvantaged areas in order to narrow the height disparity between different socio-economic groups.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":50554,"journal":{"name":"Economics & Human Biology","volume":"56 ","pages":"Article 101467"},"PeriodicalIF":2.2,"publicationDate":"2025-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142910753","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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Minimum wages and alcohol consumption: Evidence from Canadian longitudinal microdata 最低工资与酒精消费：来自加拿大纵向微观数据的证据。
IF 2.2 3区 医学
Economics & Human Biology Pub Date : 2025-02-01 DOI: 10.1016/j.ehb.2024.101464
Yihong Bai , Michael R. Veall
{"title":"Minimum wages and alcohol consumption: Evidence from Canadian longitudinal microdata","authors":"Yihong Bai ,&nbsp;Michael R. Veall","doi":"10.1016/j.ehb.2024.101464","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.ehb.2024.101464","url":null,"abstract":"<div><h3>Objective</h3><div>The objective is to estimate the effect of provincial minimum wage increases in Canada on heavy drinking, binge drinking and average daily alcohol consumption.</div></div><div><h3>Method</h3><div>We estimate standard regression models by gender-age group with drinking behaviours as the dependent variables and the minimum wage among the independent variables. We employ the Canadian National Population Health Survey which began in 1994 and ended in 2011, a period comparable to that used by many U.S. studies. The longitudinal feature of the Canadian microdata is an advantage over most U.S. datasets, allowing control for individual fixed effects, including unobserved propensities regarding alcohol. As in U.S. studies, estimation relies on differences in timing and size of minimum wage changes across jurisdictions.</div></div><div><h3>Results</h3><div>We find no consistent evidence that minimum wage increases increase drinking overall. Indeed, for less-educated males ages 26–64, we estimate that a $1 increase (about 15 %) in the real minimum wage would have reduced the prevalence of heavy drinking by 2.2 percentage points and average daily alcohol consumption by 0.15 standard drinks, with wild bootstrap 95 % confidence intervals (-4.3, −0.1) and (-0.28, −0.07) respectively. Our estimates for females are less consistent but some point towards modest increases in drinking.</div></div><div><h3>Conclusions</h3><div>Besides our strongest finding of no evidence that minimum wages increase drinking overall, our findings can also be seen as consistent with earlier research on this same Canadian dataset that found minimum wage increases reduced stress in less-educated male workers.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":50554,"journal":{"name":"Economics & Human Biology","volume":"56 ","pages":"Article 101464"},"PeriodicalIF":2.2,"publicationDate":"2025-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142900038","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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How important is girls’ ‘Biological Head Start’ in explaining gender differences in education and the labour market? 女孩的“生理领先优势”在解释教育和劳动力市场中的性别差异方面有多重要？
IF 2.2 3区 医学
Economics & Human Biology Pub Date : 2025-02-01 DOI: 10.1016/j.ehb.2024.101466
Marianne Røed, Pål Schøne, Marte Strøm
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