The General Health Questionnaire (GHQ) is frequently used as a measure of mental well-being with those people with … threshold chosen. Decomposition techniques suggest that changes in the proportion unemployed and in the protective effect of …

rather than decreased obesity amongst the less well-off. A decomposition of the concentration indices suggest that the …

body mass index rather than a change in the shape of the distribution. Finally a semi-parametric decomposition of the …

decomposition techniques to Irish data for 1994 and 2000 to examine the factors lying behind the gender differences in GHQ score …The General Health Questionnaire (GHQ) is frequently used as a measure of mental well-being. A consistent pattern … across countries is that women report lower levels of mental well-being, as measured by the GHQ. This paper applies …

its members living in urban slums. We apply a simple decomposition approach to measuring the contributions of the …

-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 …