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The impact of terrorism on well-being : evidence from the Boston Marathon Bombing
Clark, Andrew E.; Stancanelli, Elena G. F.; Doyle, Orla - 2017
A growing literature concludes that terrorism impacts the economy, yet less is known about its impact on utility. This paper estimates the impact of the 2013 Boston Marathon Bombing on well-being, by exploiting representative U.S. daily data. Using both a regression discontinuity and an event...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011714846
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Ordinal and cardinal measures of health inequality : an empirical comparison
Madden, David - 2008
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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009723864
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Gender differences in mental well-being : a decomposition analysis
Madden, David - 2008
The General Health Questionnaire (GHQ) is frequently used as a measure of mental well-being. A consistent pattern across countries is that women report lower levels of mental well-being, as measured by the GHQ. This paper applies decomposition techniques to Irish data for 1994 and 2000 to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009723874
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Worker well-being before and during the COVID-19 restrictions : a longitudinal study in the UK
Pelly, Diane; Doyle, Orla; Daly, Michael; Delaney, Liam - 2021
. However, these improvements come at the expense of reduced homelife satisfaction and job performance. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012437086
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The impact of victimisation on subjective well-being
Shannon, Matthew - 2021
This paper uses the UK Household Longitudinal Study to explore the relationship between victimisation and several measures of subjective well-being. Using person fixed effects models, I find that being attacked or insulted both significantly reduce well-being at the mean, with no significant...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012622172
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Worker well-being and quit intentions: is measuring job satisfaction enough?
Pelly, Diane - 2022
very narrow conceptualisation of well-being, namely job satisfaction, thus ignoring the documented multidimensionality of … which hedonic (job satisfaction; positive and negative affect) and eudemonic (disengagement; satisfaction of basic … satisfaction on its own. My findings suggest that the standard single-item job satisfaction indicator is probably good enough for …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013191366
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Health and wealth on the roller-voaster : Ireland, 2003 - 2011
Madden, David - 2013
This paper reviews developments in income and health poverty in Ireland over the 2003-2011 period using data from the Survey of Income and Living Conditions (SILC). It also examines developments in the correlation between the two. Income poverty fell up to and including 2009, after which this...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009744041
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The measurement of child costs : a Rothbarth-Type method consistent with scale economies
Bargain, Olivier; Donni, Olivier - 2010
We propose a new methodology to estimate the share of household income accruing to children (i.e., the cost of children). Following the principle of the Rothbarth approach, the identification of the children's share requires the observation of at least one adult-specific good. However, our...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009723331
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The dynamics of multidimensional poverty in a cohort of Irish children
Madden, David - 2021
This paper examines multidimensional poverty for three waves of a cohort of Irish children ranging from ages 9 to 17. Poverty is measured over the dimensions of health, education and family resources and both unidimensional and multidimensional poverty is examined. Both show a clear gradient...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012602322
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Bottom incomes and the measurement of poverty : a brief assessment of the literature
Ceriani, Lidia; Hlásny, Vladimír; Verme, Paolo - 2021
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013184490