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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...

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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...

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A profile of obesity in Ireland, 2002 - 2007

Madden, David - 2010

body mass index rather than a change in the shape of the distribution. Finally a semi-parametric decomposition of the … characteristics but rather the in the impact of these characteristics on body mass index. -- Obesity ; Body Mass Index ; Decomposition …

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The socioeconomic gradient of obesity in Ireland

Madden, David - 2010

rather than decreased obesity amongst the less well-off. A decomposition of the concentration indices suggest that the … education and their higher income. -- Obesity ; Body Mass Index ; Concentration Index ; Decomposition …

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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...

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Gender differences in mental well-being : a decomposition analysis

Madden, David - 2008

decomposition techniques to Irish data for 1994 and 2000 to examine the factors lying behind the gender differences in GHQ score … arising from the differing effect of principal economic status on men and women. -- GHQ ; decomposition ; path dependence …The General Health Questionnaire (GHQ) is frequently used as a measure of mental well-being. A consistent pattern …

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Why Are Older Women Missing in India? The Age Profile of Bargaining Power and Poverty

Calvi, Rossella - 2018

Almost half of missing women in India are of post-reproductive ages. I show that intra-household gender inequality and gender asymmetry in poverty can account for a substantial fraction of these missing women. Using a natural experiment, I link women's intra-household bargaining power to their...

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Getting warmer: fuel poverty, objective and subjective health and well-being

Davillas, Apostolos; Burlinson, Andrew; Liu, Hui-Hsuan - 2021

This paper uses data from Understanding Society: the UK Household Longitudinal Study to explore the association between fuel poverty and a set of well-being outcomes: life-satisfaction, self-reported health measures and more objectively measured biomarker data. Over and above the conventional...

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Do Food Prices Affect Food Security for SNAP Households? Evidence from the CPS Matched to the Quarterly Food-At-Home Price Database

Gregory, Christian - 2015

In this paper, we estimate the effect of food prices on food insecurity for SNAP recipients using data from the Current Population Survey (CPS) and the recently published Quarterly Food-At-Home Price Database (QFAHPD). By constructing this sample we can directly measure the relationship between...

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Health and Wellbeing in Udaipur and South Africa

Case, Anne - 2011

This paper presents a descriptive account of health and economic status in India and South Africa - countries in very different positions in the international hierarchy of life expectancy and income. The paper emphasizes the lack of any simple and reliable relationship between health and wealth...

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