). Extension information was collected on about 8,500 people aged 50 and over and living in Ireland, covering topics such as … economic circumstances and health. One of the features of Ireland's older population is the remarkably high proportion of … returned migrants, that is, former emigrants who have returned to live in Ireland. According to the TILDA data over 20 per cent …

. The framework is applied to vignettes and objective and subjective self-assessments of drinking behavior by students in … Ireland. Model comparisons using the Akaike information criterion favor a specification with response consistency and vignette …

patterns among college students modelling a rich variety of covariates including gender, family and peer drinking, tenure …

We live in a high-divorce age. It is now common for university faculty to have students who are touched by a recent … research into the important issue of how recent parental-divorce affects students at university. This paper designs such a … study. In it, to avoid 'priming', we measure students' happiness with life before we inquire into their family background …

(pre-reform) - for good students from less affluent household - on the optimal schooling decision. For the students who …

by using a unique data set from a private university in Turkey. We assembled data set by matching college students …

profile of their earnings. We show that students' family background is strongly related to the earnings paths of the major … they choose. Students with more educated parents, especially those who have graduate degrees, choose majors with lower …

the effect by comparing a student's academic performance before and after turning 21. We find that students' grades fall … evolution of performance as students make progress towards their degrees. -- alcohol ; post-secondary education ; minimum legal …