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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 … 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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009744041
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Health and income poverty in Ireland, 2003 - 2006
Madden, David - 2008
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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009723862
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Ireland's post crisis recovery, 2012-2019: was it pro-poor?
Dooley, Jane; Madden, David - 2021
This paper examines anonymous and non-anonymous Growth Incidence Curves (GICs) for after-tax disposable income for Ireland during its recovery period after the Great Recession, 2012-19. In the absence of suitable panel data the non-anonymous GICs were constructed on a cohort basis with cohorts...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012615974
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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 with respect to maternal education. The dynamics of both unidimensional and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012602322
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Winners and losers on the roller-coaster : Ireland, 2003 - 2011
Madden, David - 2013
This paper applies the methodology of Ravallion and Chen in calculating growth incidence curves for Ireland over the 2003-2011 period, using measures of equivalised disposable income from the Survey of Income and Living Conditions (SILC). These curves provide an indication of growth at different...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010128406
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An analysis of mental stress in Ireland, 1994 - 2000
Madden, David (contributor) - 2007
The General Health Questionnaire (GHQ) is frequently used as a measure of mental well-being with those people with values below a certain threshold regarded as suffering from mental stress. Comparison of mental stress levels across population may then be sensitive to the chosen threshold. This...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003581430
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The impact of an economic boom on the level and distribution of well-being : Ireland, 1994 - 2001
Madden, David - 2010 - Revised Version: April 2010
The impact of increased affluence on life satisfaction is a matter of some controversy. This paper examines the impact of the recent economic boom in Ireland upon the level and distribution of various domains of well-being. There is evidence of a substantial increase in life satisfaction in the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009726074
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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 Ireland over the 2002-2007 period. There is no evidence of either first or second order stochastic dominance between the two years. There is evidence that obesity and overweight...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009726086
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The socioeconomic gradient of obesity in Ireland
Madden, David - 2010
Using the nationally representative Slan dataset we calculate concentration indices for the incidence of obesity for men and women. We finder higher concentration indices for women than for men, but we also find that concentration indices fell between 2002 and 2007. However this appears to be...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009729281
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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