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

Ireland survey, this paper calculates this index for low birthweight arising from preterm and intrauterine …-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 …

based measures for a dataset for Ireland reveals a much stronger gradient than for the incidence based measures. It is …

Using data from the Growing Up in Ireland Covid survey, this study examines the evolution of mental health as measured …

A recent paper by Madden used concentration indices to examine the bases of party support in Ireland in the 2011 …

Party politics in Ireland has been characterised as politics without a social base. This paper calculates political … concentration indices for party support in Ireland showing how support for a particular party is concentrated according to …

decomposition techniques to Irish data for 1994 and 2000 to examine the factors lying behind the gender differences in GHQ score …

Ireland over the 2002-2007 period. There is no evidence of either first or second order stochastic dominance between the two … body mass index rather than a change in the shape of the distribution. Finally a semi-parametric decomposition of the …

characteristics. The decomposition is carried out over the whole of the distribution, with a particular focus on the upper percentiles … and a number of different decomposition techniques are applied and compared. The overall increase in BMI at higher …