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(University College Dublin. Geary Institute, 2010-06)This paper addresses respondents’ interpretation of the term “household expenditure” when answering survey questions. A sizeable minority of respondents do not attempt to include all transactions made by every household ...
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Back to the future - decomposition analysis of distributive policies using behavioural simulations (University College Dublin. School of Economics, 2010-10)For policy makers and analysts, it is important to isolate the redistributive impact of tax-benefit policy changes from changes in the environment in which policies operate. When actual reforms are motivated by work ...
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(University College Dublin. School of Economics, 2010-10)By inverting Saez (2002)'s model of optimal income taxation, we characterize the redistributive preferences of the Irish government between 1987 and 2005. The (marginal) social welfare function revealed by this approach ...
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(University College Dublin. School of Economics, 2010-10)In this paper we model the behaviour of the Irish suicide rate over the period 1968‐2009 using the unemployment rate and the level of alcohol consumption as explanatory variables. It is found that these variables have ...
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(University College Dublin. School of Economics, 2010-10)This paper uses a cross‐country representative sample of Europeans over the age of 50 to analyse whether individuals’ height is associated with higher or lower levels of well‐being. Two outcomes are used: a measure of ...
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(University College Dublin. School of Economics, 2010-11)
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(University College Dublin. Geary Institute, 2010-07-01)This paper addresses the intergenerational transmission of education and investigates the extent to which early school leaving (at age 16) may be due to variations in parental background. An important contribution of the ...
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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. Geary Institute, 2010-10)
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(University College Dublin. Geary Institute, 2010-09)Successful transition and adjustment to school life is critical for a child's future success. To ease this transition a child needs to arrive equipped with the necessary skills for school. The extent of a child’s behavioural ...