Health issues are an integral part of the political agenda in Ireland. Yet no study to date has examined the impact of health concerns on political outcomes. This study investigates the relationship between health, both ...
Denny, Kevin; Doyle, Orla(Oxford University Press on behalf of the European Public Health Association, 2007)
In most countries health policy is an important part of the political agenda. Yet few studies have examined the relationship between the two. This study investigates the association between health and voter turnout in ...
Many theoretical models of transition are driven by the assumption that economic decision making is subject to political constraints. In this paper we test whether the 'winners' and 'losers' of economic reform influenced ...
This paper provides a brief review of the economic rationale for investing in early
childhood. It discusses the optimal timing of intervention, with reference to recent work in developmental neuroscience, and asks how ...
Objectives: There is a substantial knowledge gap about the distribution of mental heath in community populations. The European Social Survey is particularly useful as it contains information on over 40,000 individuals, ...
This paper investigates the robustness of recent findings on the effect of parental
education and income on child health. We are particularly concerned about spurious
correlation arising from the potential endogeneity ...