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Gender Differences in Mental Well-Being - A Decomposition Analysis
Madden, David - School of Economics, University College Dublin - 2008
decomposition techniques to Irish data for 1994 and 2000 to examine the factors lying behind the gender differences in GHQ score …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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005490159
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An analysis of mental stress in Ireland, 1994 - 2000
Madden, David - 2007
The General Health Questionnaire (GHQ) is frequently used as a measure of mental well-being with those people with … stress fell in Ireland over the 1994 to 2000 period regardless of the threshold chosen. Decomposition techniques suggest that …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010272366
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An Analysis of Mental Stress in Ireland, 1994-2000
Madden, David - School of Economics, University College Dublin - 2007
The General Health Questionnaire (GHQ) is frequently used as a measure of mental well-being with those people with … stress fell in Ireland over the 1994 to 2000 period regardless of the threshold chosen. Decomposition techniques suggest that …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005685981
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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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010292813
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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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010292878
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A Profile of Obesity in Ireland, 2002-2007
Madden, David - Geary Institute, University College Dublin - 2010
body mass index rather than a change in the shape of the distribution. Finally a semi-parametric decomposition of the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008522669
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The Socioeconomic Gradient of Obesity in Ireland
Madden, David - Geary Institute, University College Dublin - 2010
rather than decreased obesity amongst the less well-off. A decomposition of the concentration indices suggest that the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008673801
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Female Suicide and the Concept of the Midlife Crisis
Oswald, Andrew J.; Tohamy, Ahmed - 2017
The idea that humans especially females are prone to some form of 'midlife crisis' has typically been viewed with extreme skepticism by social scientists. We point out the potential equivalence between an age U-shape in a new well-being literature and a matching hill-shape in especially female...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011653487
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Female suicide and the concept of the midlife crisis
Oswald, Andrew J.; Tohamy, Ahmed - 2017
The idea that humans - especially females - are prone to some form of 'midlife crisis' has typically been viewed with extreme skepticism by social scientists. We point out the potential equivalence between an age U-shape in a new well-being literature and a matching hill-shape in especially...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011647669
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A Decomposition of Multidimensional Economic Well-being: an application to Spanish regions
Perez-Mayo, Jesus; Díaz-Caro, Carlos - 2015
The aim of this paper is to analyze the evolution of well-being changes due to, on one side, the changes in the weighting scheme and, on the other, changes in the indicators along the time. An alternative methodology is proposed in this paper that allows one to decompose a multidimensional index...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011400665