Economics & Human Biology经济学与人类生物学
Economics & Human Biology(英文缩写 ECON HUM BIOL),ISSN 1570-677X,eISSN 1873-6130,中文译名:经济学与人类生物学 是一本学术期刊。本页汇总该期刊的最新影响因子、分区信息以及最新收录于 PubMed 的文献,帮助您快速了解期刊全貌。
发文量统计区间：2025-10-01 至 2026-09-30，按本站收录文献的发表日期统计。
期刊介绍
历年影响因子趋势
| JCR 数据年份 | 影响因子 | JCR 分区 |
|---|---|---|
| 2021 | 2.774 | Q2 |
| 2022 | 2.500 | Q2 |
| 2023 | 2.200 | Q2 |
| 2024 | 1.800 | Q2 |
| 2025 | 2.000 | Q2 |
Economics & Human Biology 最新收录文献
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1. More education, persistent withdrawal: Evidence from Türkiye.
PMID:日期:2026-09-29Withdrawal, a predominantly male-controlled contraceptive method, remains widely used in Türkiye despite near-universal awareness of and access to modern contraception. We study whether expanding female education changes contraceptive method choice, using Türkiye's 1997 compulsory schooling reform, which extended compulsory education from five to eight years, as an instrument in a regression discontinuity design. Among ever-married women, completing eight or more years of schooling reduces the probability of withdrawal use by 20.8 %age points among the treated group. The estimated effects on modern contraceptive adoption and no method are positive but statistically insignificant. Mechanism tests find little evidence for the knowledge, access, or fertility-preference channels. Instead, the evidence supports a life-cycle re-timing mechanism: additional schooling keeps women in school through the ages of earliest union formation, delaying first marriage and first birth and reducing exposure to the early-marriage environments in which withdrawal is more prevalent, without a detectable increase in women's intra-household bargaining power. Further analyses provide suggestive evidence that the reduction in withdrawal may be larger among women with lower religiosity, although the difference across religiosity groups is only marginally statistically significant. These findings suggest that schooling alone may be insufficient to increase modern contraceptive adoption without complementary interventions addressing gender norms and couple decision-making.
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2. Long-term care insurance and intergenerational transfers in families with disabled older adults in China.
PMID:日期:2026-09-20Intergenerational transfers constitute an important dimension of later-life quality of life and economic security and serve as a key margin through which social insurance policies affect family welfare. This study examines the effect of long-term care insurance (LTCI) on intergenerational transfers within elderly families in China. We exploit a staggered difference-in-differences approach, complemented by an event-study design, to assess the impact of LTCI on intergenerational transfers, including downward transfers from older parents to their adult children and upward transfers in the opposite direction. We find that the rollout of LTCI significantly increases the total value of downward intergenerational transfers. Mechanism analysis suggests that LTCI improves older adults' self-reported health and mental health, reduces hospitalizations and inpatient days, and lowers total medical expenses, thereby alleviating financial constraints and facilitating downward transfers. We also find that the effect of the program is more pronounced among higher-income households and those with lower disability levels.
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3. Heterogeneous effects of SNAP benefit enhancements on food sufficiency and mental health.
PMID:日期:2026-09-01For Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) households, the maximum benefit was temporarily increased by 15% from January through September 2021, with an April revision to Emergency Allotments (EA) raising benefits further for the lowest-net-income participants. We evaluate how the combined effects of these temporary benefit enhancements vary across households with different levels of susceptibility to food insufficiency, anxiety, and depression, as well as by household composition and geographic cost of living. Using data from the Household Pulse Survey, we first apply machine learning to predict households' susceptibility to each hardship outcome, then estimate treatment effects across the predicted susceptibility distribution using both traditional and doubly robust difference-in-differences estimators. The enhancements improved household food sufficiency by about 3%-4% on average. Gains tended to be larger among households with higher predicted susceptibility to food insufficiency and in lower-cost regions (e.g., 6%-7% in the Midwest), with smaller or null effects in higher-cost regions (e.g., the West). Across these dimensions, gains emerged largely after the April EA revision. We find no significant effects on anxiety over the January-September period in the full sample. In January-March, however, anxiety fell by about 3% across all households, driven by large reductions among those without children. Higher-cost regions also show anxiety reductions concentrated in this window. Depression shows no significant changes. We discuss implications for the design and targeting of SNAP benefit enhancements.
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4. The impact of language-related immigration policies on immigrant mental health care utilization.
PMID:日期:2026-08-28Economic immigrants are selected into Canada using a point system, which accounts for immigrants' language proficiency, education, and experience. We examined the impact of three policy changes associated with increasingly strict language requirements on mental health care utilization of immigrants in Canada. Using administrative health care data from Ontario, Canada, covering 1997 to 2015, we employed a difference-in-differences approach to study the effects of language requirement-related policies on economic immigrants' (i.e., skilled workers) mental health care use, relative to several comparison groups not impacted by the policy, including immigrants from the Anglosphere (i.e., immigrants from countries that have English as an official language or national language) and non-points-based immigrants (i.e., immigrants in the family class). Following policy changes that coincided with periods of increased English proficiency as an entry requirement, we found that mental health care utilization (i.e., visits to general practitioners for mental health reasons and psychiatrists) decreased for economic immigrants from non-Anglosphere countries, compared to those from Anglosphere countries, but increased compared to non-points-based immigrants. Additionally, non-mental health care utilization increased for economic immigrants from non-Anglosphere countries, compared to those from Anglosphere countries and non-points-based immigrants, following the later policy changes. This study sheds light on the impact of immigration policies, namely language requirements, on health care utilization and provides a starting point to understanding potential barriers that immigrants may face in accessing mental health care in a host country.
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5. Medicaid and health resilience: Evidence from TennCare disenrollment.
PMID:日期:2026-08-17Does public health insurance mitigate the functional consequences of adverse health shocks? I investigate this question by exploiting variation induced by Tennessee's 2005 Medicaid disenrollment, which abruptly terminated coverage for approximately 170,000 childless adults. Using Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System (BRFSS) data from 1997 to 2010 and a difference-in-differences design, I estimate Intent-to-Treat effects. I first document that the reform significantly increased the uninsured rate and increased the share of Tennessean childless adults reporting "poor" health status. I also find suggestive evidence of an increase in severe obesity prevalence. I then document a puzzle: while reported days of functional incapacitation increased by 27%, the underlying frequency of physical or mental unhealthy days remained statistically unchanged. I reconcile this divergence by documenting suggestive evidence that the "incapacitation ratio" - the probability that an unhealthy day results in incapacitation - increased by 17%. Further evidence suggests that reduced access to care is a plausible mechanism: following the TennCare disenrollment, the share of childless adults unable to see a doctor due to cost increased by 2.5 percentage points (23%), the evolution of which tracks the evolution of incapacitation ratio well. Taken together, the findings suggest that public health insurance may preserve health resilience, likely by mitigating financial barriers to care.
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6. Comparing child and caregiver reports of food insecurity: Agreement and associations with child skills.
PMID:日期:2026-08-15Two-thirds of children in low-income countries are affected by food insecurity. Household food insecurity is typically measured using caregiver reports, but children's reports may shed light on experiences or domains of food insecurity that caregivers overlook. Using a novel validated measure of child-reported food insecurity, we examine how both child- and caregiver-reported food insecurity predicted children's academic, cognitive, and social-emotional skills in a large sample of children (N = 3771, 5-17 years-of-age) and their caregivers in five northern regions of Ghana. Caregivers were nearly twice as likely as children to report food insecurity, with larger discrepancies across items reflecting moderate food insecurity manifestations. In value-added models that aim to control for unobserved heterogeneity that drives skills, caregiver-reported food insecurity predicted lower literacy and numeracy, especially among boys and older adolescents, whereas child-reported food insecurity did not predict any outcome. Potential mechanisms (child health, parental educational investments, children's aspirations, and caregiver psychological well-being) partially accounted for the observed associations. Findings suggest that caregiver reports better capture the constraints induced by food insecurity on children's learning in this context, which is important information for targeting interventions to support child development by tackling food insecurity.
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7. Mental health & gender stereotypes: Experimental evidence.
PMID:日期:2026-08-11International statistics reveal a persistent paradox: women receive depression diagnoses at rates two to three times higher than men, yet male suicide rates are two to three times higher than female rates. We investigate whether gender stereotype priming affects self-reported mental health using an experimental design embedded in a representative survey of the Italian population. We show that exposure to the treatment is associated to worse self-reported mental distress, with statistically comparable effects across genders. K-means clustering analysis reveals substantial heterogeneity: treatment effects are strongest among individuals who fail to conform to traditional gender expectations. These findings suggests that gender stereotype salience imposes psychological costs, particularly for those who fall short of traditional role expectations, offering insights into persistent gender disparities in mental health reporting and outcomes.
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8. Ageing on the job: How raising retirement age affects work accidents.
PMID:日期:2026-08-10As populations age, many countries have increased the statutory retirement age to sustain pension systems and maintain labor supply. This article examines whether delayed retirement increases workplace accident risks, a potentially important but underexplored cost of pension reforms. We exploit the 2012 Italian pension reform - which sharply tightened eligibility requirements and abruptly raised the retirement age - to estimate its causal effects using administrative data on private-sector employees. Leveraging firm-level variation in exposure to the reform, we identify the impact of delayed retirement on both older workers compelled to remain employed and their coworkers. The reform led to a modest but statistically significant increase in sick leave due to occupational injuries equivalent to 2.6% of the pre-reform mean. This effect mainly reflects the direct impact on retained older workers, with no evidence of spillovers to coworkers. While the aggregate effect is limited, the adverse consequences are highly unevenly distributed, being concentrated in small firms (fewer than 15 employees) and in sectors with high physical or cognitive demands, such as manufacturing and professional or technical services. Overall, our findings highlight occupational safety as a potentially hidden and distributional cost of pension reforms aimed at extending working lives.
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9. Private healthcare expenditure and unmet medical needs: Assessing regional disparities in Italy.
PMID:日期:2026-08-05This paper examines the decongestion effect hypothesis by exploring whether higher private healthcare financing is associated with better access to public services, as would be expected if private financing were linked to lower pressure on the public healthcare system. Using data from Italian regions over the period 2017-2022, we consider self-reported unmet needs for specialist visits as an indicator of barriers to access to public services, distinguishing between financial and waiting-time constraints. We estimate a bivariate probit model to analyze the association between regional private healthcare expenditure and unmet specialist visits, controlling for individual socioeconomic characteristics and regional health system features. The findings indicate a positive association, particularly among less affluent individuals. In contrast, higher regional public spending is associated with lower levels of forgone care. Overall, the results do not provide empirical support for the view that greater private financing is linked to better access to public healthcare services. They also raise questions about policy interventions, such as tax incentives for voluntary health insurance, that promote private healthcare financing as a tool to improve the capacity of the public healthcare system to meet patients' needs.
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10. Heterogeneous effects of working time reduction on overweight: Evidence from France.
PMID:日期:2026-08-04We examine the impact of a statutory reduction in working time (WTR) on overweight and obesity among white- and blue-collar workers in a large French firm. The firm implemented a 35-hour workweek one year prior to the national reform in all regions except Alsace-Moselle, where statutory WTR was smaller due to differences in the calculation of public holidays and working-time norms. We find that the WTR had heterogeneous effects across workers. Among blue-collar employees, the reform increased the likelihood of being overweight by 6.7 percentage points (pp) and reduced obesity by 2.6 pp. In contrast, no average effects are found among white collar workers. The heterogeneity analysis by baseline Body Mass Index (BMI) reveals contrasting patterns across occupations: among blue-collar workers, the increase in overweight is driven by individuals who were initially of normal weight, whereas among white-collar workers, overweight declines significantly only among those who were overweight or obese at baseline. Overall, the results suggest that the effects of WTR vary systematically with the baseline level of occupational sedentariness.