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Estimating the Impact of Health Programmes on the Anthropometric Indicators for Bangladeshi Women and Children Using Cross-Sectional Data
Hossain, M. I. - Department of Economics and Related Studies, University … - 2011
its members living in urban slums. We apply a simple decomposition approach to measuring the contributions of the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009224771
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A Profile of Obesity in Ireland, 2002-2007
Madden, D. - Department of Economics and Related Studies, University … - 2010
body mass index rather than a change in the shape of the distribution. Finally a semi-parametric decomposition of the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008599345
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An Analysis of Mental Stress in Ireland, 1994-2000
Madden, D - Department of Economics and Related Studies, University … - 2008
threshold chosen. Decomposition techniques suggest that changes in the proportion unemployed and in the protective effect of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005523911
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Gender Differences in Mental Well- Being: A Decomposition Analysis
Madden, D - Department of Economics and Related Studies, University … - 2008
decomposition techniques to Irish data for 1994 and 2000 to examine the factors lying behind the gender differences in GHQ score …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005523914
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Urbanization and the spread of diseases of affluence in China
Van de Poel, E; O'Donnell, O; van Doorslaer, E - Department of Economics and Related Studies, University … - 2008
more urbanized areas. Decomposition analysis shows that urbanicity-related inequalities are mostly attributable to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005695798
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The Relationship Between Low Birthweight and Socioeconomic Status in Ireland
Madden, D. - Department of Economics and Related Studies, University … - 2013
-growth-retardation. It also carries out a decomposition of this index for the different sources of low birthweight and finds that income … conditions appear to be more relevant for IUGR. The application of the standard Blinder-Oaxaca decomposition also indicates that …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010631744
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The Socioeconomic Gradient of Obesity in Ireland
Madden, D - Department of Economics and Related Studies, University … - 2010
rather than decreased obesity amongst the less well-off. A decomposition of the concentration indices suggest that the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008763963
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Born to Win? The Role of Circumstances and Luck in Early Childhood Health Inequalities
Madden, D. - Department of Economics and Related Studies, University … - 2013
This paper measures the degree of inequality of opportunity in birthweight and birthlength for a sample of Irish infants. The sample is partitioned into eight types by mothers’ education and mothers’ smoking status. Stochastic dominance tests reveal the presence of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011146831