Browsing Geary Institute by Subject "Health"

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Height and well-being amongst older Europeans

Denny, Kevin (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 ...
Investigating the economic and demographic determinants of sporting participation in England

Farrell, Lisa ; Shields, Michael A. (Blackwell, 2002)

We provide a detailed statistical investigation into the economic and demographic factors that determine sporting participation in England. Using data from the 1997 health survey of England we fit random-effects probit ...
Labour supply, health and caring : evidence from the UK

Madden, David (David Patrick) ; Walker, Ian (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 ...
Mother's education and birth weight

Chevalier, Arnaud ; O'Sullivan, Vincent (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 ...