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This paper reviews developments in income and health poverty in Ireland over the 2003-2011 period using data from the … poverty fell up to and including 2009, after which this trend is reversed. Health poverty shows less of a trend over the … period though there is some evidence of a reduction in health inequality from 2006. Movements in bi-dimensional poverty are …
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Recent advances in the measurement of bi-dimensional poverty are applied to a measure of poverty which incorporates … income and health poverty. The correlation between income and poverty is examined using the Receiver Operating … Characteristics curve. Following from this unidimensional and bi-dimensional poverty indices are calculated for Ireland for the years …
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Numerous papers have documented a positive association between height and good physical health and also with good economic outcomes such as earnings. A smaller number have argued for an association with well-being. In this paper, cross-country data from Europe is used to analyse whether...
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Much analysis of the socioeconomic gradient of overweight/obesity has involved the calculation of concentration indices for the incidence of these conditions. However this analysis ignores the severity of the conditions, in particular whether there is a gradient to how far are people above the...
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of the distribution. Analysis of the incidence of low birthweight and short birthlength using measures from the poverty …
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When measuring health inequality using ordinal data, analysts typically must choose between indices specifically based upon ordinal data and more standard indices using ordinal data which has been transformed into cardinal data. This paper compares inequality rankings across a number of...
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