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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 …, including test scores, hospital stays and health. An advantage of the data is that I am able to control for a number of … conditions and later outcomes. -- Early Life Conditions ; Birth Weight ; Health Inequalities ; Test Scores …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009732550
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A tax on children? : food price inflation and health
Woldemichael, Andinet; Kidane, Daniel; Shimeles, Abebe - 2017
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011990112
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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 for the incidence of these conditions. However this analysis ignores the severity of the conditions, in particular whether there is a gradient to how far are people above the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011736939
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Instrumental variable estimation of the causal effect of hunger early in life on health later in life
Berg, Gerard J. van den; Pinger, Pia; Schoch, Johannes - 2012
Numerous studies have evaluated the effect of nutrition early in life on health much later in life by comparing …. In this paper we estimate this average causal effect on health outcomes later in life, by applying instrumental variable …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011489844
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Body Mass Index and the measurement of obesity
Madden, David (contributor) - 2006
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003394346
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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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Self-reported and measured BMI in Ireland : should we adjust the obesity thresholds?
Madden, David - 2013
Using the nationally representative Slan dataset of 2007 we analyse the relationship between self-reported and measured BMI. We find that selfreported BMI significantly underestimates obesity rates and suggest that the traditional threshold of 30 should be adjusted downwards. We outline a number...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009733392
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Child and adolescent obesity in Ireland : a longitudinal perspective
Madden, David - 2016
This paper examines developments in childhood and adolescent obesity in Ireland using two waves of the Growing Up in Ireland survey. Obesity appears to level off between the two waves though there is tentative evidence that the socioeconomic gradient, measured with respect to maternal education...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011515575
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Childhood obesity and maternal education in Ireland
Madden, David - 2016
This paper analyses the socioeconomic gradient of chilidhood obesity in Ireland using the Growing Up in Ireland data with three innovations compared to previous work in the area. A different measure of socioeconomic status, maternal education, is employed. In addition, the depth and severity of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011561031