Seasonal patterns in newborns' health: Quantifying the roles of climate, communicable disease, economic and social factors
Econ Hum Biol. 2023 Aug 2;51:101287. doi: 10.1016/j.ehb.2023.101287. Online ahead of print.ABSTRACTPoor health at birth can have long-term consequences for children's development. This paper analyses an important factor associated with health at birth: the time of year that the baby is born, and hence seasonal risks they were exposed to in utero. There are multiple potential explanations for seasonality in newborns' health. Most previous research has examined these in isolation. We therefore do not know which explanations are most important - and hence which policy interventions would most effectively reduce the resulting ...
Source: Economics and Human Biology - August 7, 2023 Category: Biology Authors: Mary-Alice Doyle Source Type: research
Seasonal patterns in newborns' health: Quantifying the roles of climate, communicable disease, economic and social factors
Econ Hum Biol. 2023 Aug 2;51:101287. doi: 10.1016/j.ehb.2023.101287. Online ahead of print.ABSTRACTPoor health at birth can have long-term consequences for children's development. This paper analyses an important factor associated with health at birth: the time of year that the baby is born, and hence seasonal risks they were exposed to in utero. There are multiple potential explanations for seasonality in newborns' health. Most previous research has examined these in isolation. We therefore do not know which explanations are most important - and hence which policy interventions would most effectively reduce the resulting ...
Source: Economics and Human Biology - August 7, 2023 Category: Biology Authors: Mary-Alice Doyle Source Type: research
Seasonal patterns in newborns' health: Quantifying the roles of climate, communicable disease, economic and social factors
Econ Hum Biol. 2023 Aug 2;51:101287. doi: 10.1016/j.ehb.2023.101287. Online ahead of print.ABSTRACTPoor health at birth can have long-term consequences for children's development. This paper analyses an important factor associated with health at birth: the time of year that the baby is born, and hence seasonal risks they were exposed to in utero. There are multiple potential explanations for seasonality in newborns' health. Most previous research has examined these in isolation. We therefore do not know which explanations are most important - and hence which policy interventions would most effectively reduce the resulting ...
Source: Economics and Human Biology - August 7, 2023 Category: Biology Authors: Mary-Alice Doyle Source Type: research
The association of asthma and air pollution: Evidence from India
Econ Hum Biol. 2023 Jul 17;51:101278. doi: 10.1016/j.ehb.2023.101278. Online ahead of print.ABSTRACTIn the last two decades, air pollution has increased throughout India resulting in the deterioration of air quality. This paper estimates the prevalence of self-reported asthma in women aged 15-49 years and examines the link between outdoor air pollution and disease prevalence in India by combining satellite data on particulate matter (PM2.5) and the National Family Health Survey (NFHS-4), 2015-16. The results indicate that both indoor pollution as well as outdoor air pollution are important risk factors for asthma in women ...
Source: Economics and Human Biology - August 6, 2023 Category: Biology Authors: Damini Singh Indrani Gupta Arjun Roy Source Type: research
Leave for where? The impact of air quality on migration: Evidence at the city-pair level in China
Econ Hum Biol. 2023 Aug 2;51:101285. doi: 10.1016/j.ehb.2023.101285. Online ahead of print.ABSTRACTWe comprehensively explore the question of "Leave for where?" by utilizing city-pair level data of China spanning from 2011 to 2017. Our investigation focuses on the impact of disparities in air quality between city pairs on migration. we find that a 1% increase in the difference air quality between inflow and outflow locations raises the number of people migrating from the outflow to the inflow location by approximately 0.07%. This finding is robust after overcoming possible endogeneity problems with average wind speed as an...
Source: Economics and Human Biology - August 6, 2023 Category: Biology Authors: Mingyue Wang Tianshi Sun Source Type: research
The association of asthma and air pollution: Evidence from India
Econ Hum Biol. 2023 Jul 17;51:101278. doi: 10.1016/j.ehb.2023.101278. Online ahead of print.ABSTRACTIn the last two decades, air pollution has increased throughout India resulting in the deterioration of air quality. This paper estimates the prevalence of self-reported asthma in women aged 15-49 years and examines the link between outdoor air pollution and disease prevalence in India by combining satellite data on particulate matter (PM2.5) and the National Family Health Survey (NFHS-4), 2015-16. The results indicate that both indoor pollution as well as outdoor air pollution are important risk factors for asthma in women ...
Source: Economics and Human Biology - August 6, 2023 Category: Biology Authors: Damini Singh Indrani Gupta Arjun Roy Source Type: research
Leave for where? The impact of air quality on migration: Evidence at the city-pair level in China
Econ Hum Biol. 2023 Aug 2;51:101285. doi: 10.1016/j.ehb.2023.101285. Online ahead of print.ABSTRACTWe comprehensively explore the question of "Leave for where?" by utilizing city-pair level data of China spanning from 2011 to 2017. Our investigation focuses on the impact of disparities in air quality between city pairs on migration. we find that a 1% increase in the difference air quality between inflow and outflow locations raises the number of people migrating from the outflow to the inflow location by approximately 0.07%. This finding is robust after overcoming possible endogeneity problems with average wind speed as an...
Source: Economics and Human Biology - August 6, 2023 Category: Biology Authors: Mingyue Wang Tianshi Sun Source Type: research
The impact of overweight and obesity on unemployment duration among young American workers
Econ Hum Biol. 2023 Jul 27;51:101280. doi: 10.1016/j.ehb.2023.101280. Online ahead of print.ABSTRACTObesity has a profound effect on the working careers of Americans. Prior studies pertaining to workers in other countries report that obese women experienced longer spells of unemployment than normal weight peers. However, the effect of obesity on unemployment duration has not been studied for American workers. To address this gap in the literature, we report estimates of the effects of overweight and obesity from a proportional hazards model of unemployment duration that controls for unobserved individual characteristics. U...
Source: Economics and Human Biology - August 5, 2023 Category: Biology Authors: Jeremy Groves Virginia Wilcox Source Type: research
The impact of overweight and obesity on unemployment duration among young American workers
Econ Hum Biol. 2023 Jul 27;51:101280. doi: 10.1016/j.ehb.2023.101280. Online ahead of print.ABSTRACTObesity has a profound effect on the working careers of Americans. Prior studies pertaining to workers in other countries report that obese women experienced longer spells of unemployment than normal weight peers. However, the effect of obesity on unemployment duration has not been studied for American workers. To address this gap in the literature, we report estimates of the effects of overweight and obesity from a proportional hazards model of unemployment duration that controls for unobserved individual characteristics. U...
Source: Economics and Human Biology - August 5, 2023 Category: Biology Authors: Jeremy Groves Virginia Wilcox Source Type: research
The sorting effect in healthcare access: Those left behind
Econ Hum Biol. 2023 Jul 27;51:101282. doi: 10.1016/j.ehb.2023.101282. Online ahead of print.ABSTRACTMany governments have sought to enhance patient choice in hospital by intensifying competitive pressure on hospital administrations that is expected to improve efficiency, quality, and innovation. However, there is mixed evidence on whether patients travel past their local hospitals to seek better quality care and whether higher-income patients are those most sensitive to respond to competitive pressures. Using detailed data from 17 million inpatient stays admitted in France during 2019, this paper explores patients' choice ...
Source: Economics and Human Biology - August 2, 2023 Category: Biology Authors: Carine Milcent Source Type: research
General and COVID19-specific emotional stress: Religious practice as a potential coping strategy
Econ Hum Biol. 2023 Jul 29;51:101284. doi: 10.1016/j.ehb.2023.101284. Online ahead of print.ABSTRACTUsing Spanish microdata from the Survey on mental health during the COVID-19 pandemic conducted in February 2021 by the Centre for Sociological Research (CIS), this paper aims at identifying individual factors associated with an increased risk of mental or emotional distress arising from two different sources: a general pattern of depression or anxiety and distress specifically associated with the pandemic as measured by fears and worries about one's own or others' lives and job and income insecurity due to the COVID-19 heal...
Source: Economics and Human Biology - August 2, 2023 Category: Biology Authors: Maite Bl ázquez Roc ío Sánchez-Mangas Source Type: research
Spatiotemporal variations in mean height of 17-year-old students born in 1957-2002 across 47 Japanese prefectures: Evidence from School Health Surveys
Econ Hum Biol. 2023 Jul 22;51:101283. doi: 10.1016/j.ehb.2023.101283. Online ahead of print.ABSTRACTThis paper examines the secular trends and variations in mean height of 17-year-old students born in 1957-2002 across 47 prefectures in Japan. Mean height is consistently lower in southwest prefectures and greater in prefectures in the Greater Tokyo Area and from the south-central area to the north-western area facing Eurasia in the main island. Both the range and the coefficient of variation stay constant in the cohorts born during the 1970s or later, following rapid increases of mean height in the prefectures that initiall...
Source: Economics and Human Biology - August 2, 2023 Category: Biology Authors: Nayu Ikeda Nobuo Nishi Source Type: research
The sorting effect in healthcare access: Those left behind
Econ Hum Biol. 2023 Jul 27;51:101282. doi: 10.1016/j.ehb.2023.101282. Online ahead of print.ABSTRACTMany governments have sought to enhance patient choice in hospital by intensifying competitive pressure on hospital administrations that is expected to improve efficiency, quality, and innovation. However, there is mixed evidence on whether patients travel past their local hospitals to seek better quality care and whether higher-income patients are those most sensitive to respond to competitive pressures. Using detailed data from 17 million inpatient stays admitted in France during 2019, this paper explores patients' choice ...
Source: Economics and Human Biology - August 2, 2023 Category: Biology Authors: Carine Milcent Source Type: research
General and COVID19-specific emotional stress: Religious practice as a potential coping strategy
Econ Hum Biol. 2023 Jul 29;51:101284. doi: 10.1016/j.ehb.2023.101284. Online ahead of print.ABSTRACTUsing Spanish microdata from the Survey on mental health during the COVID-19 pandemic conducted in February 2021 by the Centre for Sociological Research (CIS), this paper aims at identifying individual factors associated with an increased risk of mental or emotional distress arising from two different sources: a general pattern of depression or anxiety and distress specifically associated with the pandemic as measured by fears and worries about one's own or others' lives and job and income insecurity due to the COVID-19 heal...
Source: Economics and Human Biology - August 2, 2023 Category: Biology Authors: Maite Bl ázquez Roc ío Sánchez-Mangas Source Type: research
Spatiotemporal variations in mean height of 17-year-old students born in 1957-2002 across 47 Japanese prefectures: Evidence from School Health Surveys
Econ Hum Biol. 2023 Jul 22;51:101283. doi: 10.1016/j.ehb.2023.101283. Online ahead of print.ABSTRACTThis paper examines the secular trends and variations in mean height of 17-year-old students born in 1957-2002 across 47 prefectures in Japan. Mean height is consistently lower in southwest prefectures and greater in prefectures in the Greater Tokyo Area and from the south-central area to the north-western area facing Eurasia in the main island. Both the range and the coefficient of variation stay constant in the cohorts born during the 1970s or later, following rapid increases of mean height in the prefectures that initiall...
Source: Economics and Human Biology - August 2, 2023 Category: Biology Authors: Nayu Ikeda Nobuo Nishi Source Type: research
