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such interventions with respect to Ireland. -- Risky behaviour ; market failure …
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In this paper we model the behaviour of the Irish suicide rate over the period 1968-2009 using the unemployment rate and the level of alcohol consumption as explanatory variables. It is found that these variables have significant positive effects on suicide mortality in several demographic...
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. The framework is applied to vignettes and objective and subjective self-assessments of drinking behavior by students in … Ireland. Model comparisons using the Akaike information criterion favor a specification with response consistency and vignette …
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health behaviours using data on older adults from both the Republic of Ireland and Northern Ireland. We employ concentration … incomes in both regions. In relation to physical activity, the magnitude of the inequality is higher for Northern Ireland … status tend to play a less pronounced role. In terms of Northern Ireland/Republic of Ireland comparisons with respect to the …
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to low socioeconomic status (SES) students using a natural experiment which exploits the time variation in the expansion … treatment is based on SES rather than ethnicity. Evaluating the effectiveness of programs targeting disadvantaged students in … Ireland is particularly salient given the high rate of return to education and the lack of intergenerational mobility in …
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We use administrative data from Ireland to study differences in college application behaviour between students from … disadvantaged versus advantaged high schools. Ireland provides an interesting laboratory for this analysis as applicants provide a … on grades in the terminal high school examinations. Thus, we can compare the application choices of students who have …
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administrative data from Ireland, we explore the performance in college of different types of students. We find that post … for their greater prior achievement, and this is true in both non-STEM and STEM fields. Disabled students, students from … disadvantaged schools, and students who qualify for means-tested financial aid are less likely to complete and less likely to obtain …
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