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Browsing Interdisciplinary Centres & Research Groups by Subject "I12"
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(University College Dubin; School of Economics, 2007-08)The General Health Questionnair(GHQ) is frequently used as a measure of mental well-being with those people with values below a certain threshold regarded as suffering from mental stress. Comparison of mental stress levels ...
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(University College Dublin. School of Economics, 2006-12)This paper proposes a new method of measuring obesity using Body Mass Index (BMI) data. Conventional measures which simply count the number of individuals with BMI in excess of an upper limit ignore the extent by which ...
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(University College Dublin. Institute for the Study of Social Change (Geary Institute), 2003-02)If labour market policies aimed at people with disabilities are effective, we should observe no significant difference in labour market outcomes between disable and non-disable individuals. This paper examines the impact ...
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(University College Dublin. School of Economics, 2008-07)Recent advances in the measurement of bi-dimensional poverty are applied to a measure of poverty which incorporates income and health poverty. The correlation between income and poverty is examined using the Receiver ...
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(University College Dublin; School of Economics, 2007-08)
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(University College Dublin. School of Economics, 2010-05)The impact of increased affluence on life satisfaction is a matter of some controversy. This paper examines the impact of the recent economic boom in Ireland upon the level and distribution of various domains of well-being. ...
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(University College Dublin. School of Economics, 1999-11)This paper investigates the impact of own-health,and that of others, on individual labour supply. We estimate a model of hours of caring and hours of work using a large micro dataset of UK households. We find that own ill ...
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(University College Dublin. Geary Institute, 2007-06-12)Low birth weight has considerable short and long-term consequences and leads to high costs to the individual and society even in a developed economy. Low birth weight is partially a consequence of choices made by the ...
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(University College Dublin. School of EconomicsUniversity College Dublin. Geary Institute, 2010-03)Using the nationally representative Slan dataset we take a number of approaches to profile the change in obesity in Ireland over the 2002-2007 period. There is no evidence of either first or second order stochastic ...
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(University College Dublin. School of Economics, 2006-04)There is a well-established debate between Heckman sample selection and two-part models in health econometrics, particularly when no obvious exclusion restrictions are available. Most of this debate has focussed on the ...
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(University College Dublin. Geary Institute, 2007-06-08)Mental illness is associated with large costs to individuals and society. Education improves various health outcomes but little work has been done on mental illness. To obtain unbiased estimates of the effect of education ...
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(University College Dublin. School of Economics, 2002-02)This paper analyses decisions regarding smoking and drinking for a sample of Irish women. Double-hurdle models are estimated to determine whether decisions to smoke/drink are made independently of how much to smoke/drink. ...
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(University College Dublin. Geary Institute, 2008-08-06)Smokers not only choose the number of cigarettes to smoke in any given period on the basis of price, they also choose the intensity with which to smoke - that is, how much nicotine to inhale. The possibility that ...
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(University College Dublin. School of Economics, 2010-10)Using the nationally representative Slan dataset we calculate concentration indices for the incidence of obesity for men and women. We finder higher concentration indices for women than for men, but we also find that ...
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(University College Dublin. Geary Institute, 2010-09)Using the nationally representative Slan dataset we calculate concentration indices for the incidence of obesity for men and women. We finder higher concentration indices for women than for men, but we also find that ...
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(University College Dublin. School of Economics, 2002-10)This paper calculates the concentration index for self-assessed health for a sample of Irish women. It then decomposes the index to investigate the sources of this inequality using both a health production function and ...
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(University College Dublin. Geary Institute, 2007-06-01)Comparing self-assessed indicators of subjective outcomes such as health, work disability, political efficacy, job satisfaction, etc. across countries or socio-economic groups is often hampered by the fact that different ...
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(University College Dublin. School of Economics, 2008-04)Comparing self-assessed indicators of subjective outcomes such as health, work disability, political efficacy, job satisfaction, etc. across countries or socio-economic groups is often hampered by the fact that different ...
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