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(University College Dublin. School of Economics, 2000-04)This paper examines the change in welfare in Ireland over the 1987- 1994 period by investigating whether Lorenz and Generalised Lorenz dominance can be observed for household expenditure data. It also calculates bootstrapped ...
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(University College Dublin. School of Economics, 2005-09)This paper analyses data from the Irish Household Budget Surveys of 1987, 1994 and 1999 to examine the evolution of inequality of income and expenditure over that period. The paper calculates Lorenz and Generalised Lorenz ...
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(University College Dublin. School of Economics, 1995)This paper applies the concept of welfare dominance using concentration curves to household data for Ireland. It identifies marginal tax reforms which would be welfare-enhancing for all social welfare functions satisfying ...
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(BMJ Publishing Group, 2012-10)
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Improving the generalisation ability of genetic programming with semantic similarity based crossover (Springer, 2010)This paper examines the impact of semantic control on the ability of Genetic Programming (GP) to generalise via a semantic based crossover operator (Semantic Similarity based Crossover - SSC). The use of validation sets ...
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(University College Dublin. School of Economics, 2012-02)This paper reviews methods for studying dominance and inequality in health economics. It concentrates on “pure inequality” as opposed to inequality which is related to income or some other measure of household resources. ...
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Maximum margin decision surfaces for increased generalisation in evolutionary decision tree learning (Springer, 2011-04-27)Decision tree learning is one of the most widely used and practical methods for inductive inference. We present a novel method that increases the generalisation of genetically-induced classification trees, which employ ...
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(Economic and Social Research Institute, 2000-07)Poverty dominance analysis uses stochastic dominance to provide rankings of distributions in terms of poverty which are not sensitive to the choice of poverty line. This analysis is carried out for Ireland using Household ...
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(University College Dublin. Department of Economics, 1997-04)Empirical research on interest rate linkages within the European Monetary System (EMS) has concentrated on the concepts of asymmetry and German dominance. Asymmetry is usually taken to mean that German monetary policy is ...
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(University College Dublin. School of Economics, 2002)