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The socioeconomic gradient of obesity in Ireland
Madden, David - 2010
Using the nationally representative Slan dataset we calculate concentration indices for the incidence of obesity for … fell between 2002 and 2007. However this appears to be owing to an increased incidence of obesity amongst better off people … rather than decreased obesity amongst the less well-off. A decomposition of the concentration indices suggest that the …
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A profile of obesity in Ireland, 2002 - 2007
Madden, David - 2010
Using the nationally representative Slan dataset we take a number of approaches to profile the change in obesity in … years. There is evidence that obesity and overweight are relatively more concentrated amongst males, the old and those with … lower educational achievement. While obesity rose slightly over the period this was due to a rise in the average level of …
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Maternal employment, childcare and childhood overweight during infancy
McDonnell, Thérèse; Doyle, Orla - 2014
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Still unequal at birth: birth weight, socioeconomic status and outcomes at age 9
McGovern, Mark E. - 2012
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Heterogeneous interpretation of “household expenditure” in survey reports : evidence and implications of bias
Comerford, David; Delaney, Liam - 2010
This paper addresses respondents’ interpretation of the term “household expenditure” when answering survey questions. A sizeable minority of respondents do not attempt to include all transactions made by every household member, interpreting the question as eliciting individual consumption....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008809951
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Instrumental variables in models with multiple outcomes : the general unordered case
Heckman, James J.; Urzua, Sergio; Vytlacil, Edward - 2008
This paper develops the method of local instrumental variables for models with multiple, unordered treatments when treatment choice is determined by a nonparametric version of the multinomial choice model. Responses to interventions are permitted to be heterogeneous in a general way and agents...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003870351
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Comparing IV with structural models : what simple IV can and cannot identify
Heckman, James J.; Urzúay, Sergio - 2009
This paper compares the economic questions addressed by instrumental variables estimators with those addressed by structural approaches. We discuss Marschak's Maxim: estimators should be selected on the basis of their ability to answer well-posed economic problems with minimal assumptions. A key...
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Testing the correlated random coefficient model
Heckman, James J.; Schmierer, Daniel; Urzua, Sergio - 2009
The recent literature on instrumental variables (IV) features models in which agents sort into treatment status on the basis of gains from treatment as well as on baseline-pretreatment levels. Components of the gains known to the agents and acted on by them may not be known by the observing...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003899921
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Understanding instrumental variables in models with essential heterogeneity
Heckman, James J.; Urzua, Sergio; Vytlacil, Edward - 2009
This paper examines the properties of instrumental variables (IV) applied to models with essential heterogeneity, that is, models where responses to interventions are heterogeneous and agents adopt treatments (participate in programs) with at least partial knowledge of their idiosyncratic...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003906850
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Landmines, poverty and recovery : instrumental variables evidence from Mozambique
Merrouche, Ouarda - 2007
The International Campaign to Ban Landmines production and use estimates that there are more than 80 billion landmines in the ground in more than 80 countries. Despite the scale of the problem and large investments by OECD countries to clear mines in low income countries, the economic...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008799185