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Maternal employment, childcare and childhood overweight during infancy

McDonnell, Thérèse; Doyle, Orla - 2014

This paper examines the relationship between maternal employment, childcare during infancy and the overweight status of pre-school children. Using data from the Infant Cohort of the Growing-Up in Ireland Survey, propensity score matching addresses the issue of potential selection bias, quantile...

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Mind the gap : revisiting the concentration index for overweight

Madden, David - 2017

Much analysis of the socioeconomic gradient of overweight/obesity has involved the calculation of concentration indices … recommended that analysis of severity should always accompany analysis of the incidence of overweight/obesity. …

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Changes in BMI in a cohort of Irish children : some decompositions and counterfactuals

Madden, David - 2018

This paper examines the change in body mass index for a cohort of Irish children as they aged from 9 to 13 and decomposes the change into parts attributable to changes in observable characteristics and changes in returns to observable characteristics. The decomposition is carried out over the...

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Only the fit survive recessions : estimating labor market penalties for the obese over the business cycle

Inafuku, Rachel - 2022

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Estimating intergenerational income mobility on sub-optimal data : a machine learning approach

Bloise, Francesco; Brunori, Paolo; Piraino, Patrizio - 2020

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Body Mass Index and the measurement of obesity

Madden, David (contributor) - 2006

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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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The socioeconomic gradient of obesity in Ireland

Madden, David - 2010

education and their higher income. -- Obesity ; Body Mass Index ; Concentration Index ; Decomposition …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 …

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Still unequal at birth : birth weight, socioeconomic status and outcomes at Age 9

McGovern, Mark E. - 2011

Birth weight is an important aspect of public health which has been linked to increased risk of infant death, increased cost of care, and a range of later life outcomes. Using data from a new Irish cohort study, I document the relationship between birth weight and socioeconomic status. A strong...

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Self-reported and measured BMI in Ireland : should we adjust the obesity thresholds?

Madden, David - 2013

BMI. We find that selfreported BMI significantly underestimates obesity rates and suggest that the traditional threshold … that the new obesity threshold for self-reported BMI could be as low as 26. …

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