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 …

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 …

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

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

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 …

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